Chapter 1

Summary
Scott and Amanda are watching a limosuine pull up to the California State Museum. Napoleon Orvell, Rubio Hernandez, and Fred climb out of the car, then greet Scott and Amanda.

The four of them discuss the terms of Napoleon spending two weeks in Sacramento while Ryker stays in the Las Vegas faction for two weeks. Scott stares off into space, tuning out the world and notices Fred ever so slightly staring at him. Scott waves to him, but Fred doesn't seem to react, not out of some sort of passive aggressivness, but because Fred genuinely hadn't noticed Scott wave to him. Scott gets curious, and reflects the sunlight coming in from a window directly into Fred's eyes, and once again Fred doesn't react.

Scott and Napoleon have a smoke break together outside the museum, Napoleon presses Scott about whether Scott is satisfied working with Amanda, hinting that he should turn on her. Scott leaves Napoleon to smoke his cigarette.

Scott says goodbye to Amanda before flying off to Las Vegas from the international Sacramento Airport. On the plane trip, Scott says that he doesn't want to be rude but he noticed that Fred doesn't have to seem the best eyesight and asks how he intends to fly the plane. Fred gives a long speech about how even though he doesn't have the best vision, but he isn't going to let that stop him no matter what happens to him and causes Scott to even get a little scared of him, and then presses the autopilot button.

Rubio teases Scott on the plane, and the two of them decide to have a drinking game to pass the time. Placing napkins under shotglasses, and if they can slide out the napkin from the shot glass without it spilling, they drink. Scott being a lightweight is barely able to handle more than 3 shots, Rubio practically downs the entire bottle.

Napoleon is discussing the public transport system within Sacramento as they drive through Sacramento to where Napoleon's house is.

When they get there, Napoleon seems dissapointed by the fact that his house is a mansion in the El Dorado Hills. He asks Amanda if they have any houses on the water that are unnocupied, Amanda is shocked by this and asks Napoleon if he's sure that he doesn't want this house. Napoleon nods and Amanda makes a few phone calls while Napoleon thinks to himself for a few seconds about Amanda. Amanda then tells Napoleon that there is a house that's empty on an inland lake. Napoleon politely asks to have that house and Amanda says she doesn't see why not, but doesn't seem to understand while Napoleon doesn't want the mansion.

Once Napoleon is in his new house, he goes around the house checking for cameras or wire taps on his house, denying the fact that he's paranoid even though he's showing clear signs of it.

After landing in Las Vegas, Scott is welcomed to a party for his arrival in Las Vegas. While the party rages on, Scott opts out of it and decides to hold a conversation with Fred at a table a bit far away from the party. They have a light hearted conversation about their favorite movies. When the topic of Rambo comes up, Ejido Navares comes over to the table and joins the conversation, saying that he could easily take Rambo in a fight. Both Fred and Scott seem to disagree with him. Fred slides over a bowl of cherries to Ejido and tells him that if he's such a good marksman, he must have good aim and to see if he can land a cherry in Fred's mouth. Ejido nails it, but Fred messes with him by having Ejido keep feeding him cherries. Ejido realizes this after about 4 cherries, then gives the two of them a stink eye. Ejido leaves the room.

A few minutes later, Scott tells Fred that he's going to go on a smoke break since all the music and party is too much for him, and he needs a few minutes to himself. While he's walking out of the hallway, he sees Ejido having a conversation with a janitor by the name of Lena Hardgrove. Scott wants to ask him about it, but decides against it as Ejido seems to be deep in conversation.

Scott and Rubio share a cigarette outside. Scott begins to smoke a pack of cheap gas station cigarettes, Rubio takes it out of his mouth and proudly tells him that he should consider himself royalty now that he's in Las Vegas, and then hands him a cigar.

At the end of the night, Scott recieves one of the many penthouses in the Lava on Water Casino. He has trouble sleeping that night and spends a few hours looking at the stars.

Napoleon is on a phone call with an unnamed person discussing Rubio, showing very clear and great hatred for him, and reminds the person on the phone that "It has to look like a suicide".