Climpt goes into a deep depression at the end of the book when the police have to shoot a teenaged girl who has tried to kill Lucas. Finally, there's Father Phil Bergen, the alcoholic Catholic priest. He had a daughter with a woman he'd never loved, though he'd liked her a lot. She was a reporter, and they'd been held together by a common addiction to pressure and movement. He'd loved another woman, or might have, who was consumed by her career as a cop.
Weather fit the mold of the cop.
She was serious, and tough, but seemed to have an intact sense of humor. During the pursuit of the Iceman Lucas is shot in the throat and Weather saves his life. The book ends with him recovering in the hospital and looking forward to the future of his relationship with Weather. Roux, who has her eye on an eventual seat in the Senate, needs him to help track down the latest serial killer. So Davenport becomes a deputy chief, an appointed position not subject to the same restrictions that previously cost him his job as a police officer.