Killing Floor

Despite Finlay’s belief that Reacher and Hubble are both innocent, Morrison decides that Hubble hired Reacher to commit the murder, and both men are transferred to the nearby Warburton state facility for the weekend. Reacher is angry and calls Finlay a coward for not standing up to Morrison, but Finlay assures him that Roscoe is already looking into both men’s alibis to clear them, and she will work all weekend to get it done. Baker handcuffs Reacher and Hubble, and they board the penitentiary bus waiting outside. As they drive to Warburton, Reacher watches Hubble’s fear intensify. Upon arrival, a corrections officer explains that Reacher and Hubble will be held on the top floor, and the assistant warden, Spivey, will escort them there at ten o’clock. Reacher and Hubble eat in silence. At ten, Spivey arrives and asks which of the two men is Hubble. Spivey leads them upstairs and points them to an empty cell. Reacher soon falls asleep, and he dreams of going to Jamaica with Roscoe.

In the morning, Reacher has a conversation with an elderly inmate who is mopping the floor outside their cell. The man keeps laughing, and finally says he has never seen anyone on this floor wearing regular clothes.