Prendergast
- Prendergast grows impatient that Harrison still hasn't appointed him. He visits City Hall to see his future office.
- Of course, the clerk has no idea who he is.
- Prendergast asks to see the current counsel, Kraus.
- Kraus, amused, introduces Prendergast to the men in the room as his "successor" and everyone smiles. They're not laughing with you, Prendergast, they're laughing at you.
- Prendergast mistakes their smiles for acknowledgements that he will soon be in charge.
- Kraus' error here is humoring Prendergast and intensifying his delusions.