bureaucratic-obstruction

In this chapter, Bina Gelbfish confronts Meyer Landsman about a conspiracy involving the U.S. government and messianic Jewish groups planning an attack on a Muslim shrine in Palestine. Despite internal resistance and jurisdictional challenges, Bina insists on pursuing the investigation, seeking to bring in Alter Litvak for questioning. The chapter highlights the tension between official authority and individual determination amid a backdrop of political intrigue and covert operations.

In this chapter, Dunworthy struggles to manage a rapidly worsening influenza epidemic among detainees and hospital staff, facing shortages of supplies, communication breakdowns, and bureaucratic obstacles. Despite his efforts to contact technicians and fishing guides to trace the outbreak's source, he encounters dead ends and growing despair. Mary, overwhelmed and exhausted, confronts the institutional resistance to opening the time travel net early, while the epidemic's toll mounts with numerous deaths and incapacitated caregivers.