Earley attempts to check in on Ted Jackson but is initially unable to reach him. A social worker from the jail informs Earley that he was arrested again, albeit briefly, looking beat up. When Earley gets in contact with him, Ted tells him that several police officers beat him up after they caught him spraying graffiti again. He was arrested and thrown back in jail before his charges were dismissed. After his release, Ted finds himself in trouble with a man who persuaded him to buy various items on a credit card, racking up even more debt. When this person refused to pay him back and said he would lie to Miami police that Ted had threatened him, Ted became afraid to leave his apartment for anything besides his upcoming psychiatrist appointment.

Earley decides to find another inmate he can shadow through the Miami jail system. He camps out at the jail’s booking office one night and notes the jail’s intake procedures, as well as the difference between the treatment of an attractive woman by the correctional officers and that of a disheveled-looking woman who was booked at the same time. The disheveled woman tells an officer that her name is