The trial of Marcus Chen lasted for three months. During that time, Frederick was called to testify on multiple occasions, as were Ivy, Detective Morrison, Dr. Helen Park, and numerous other witnesses. The evidence against Marcus was overwhelming. There were records of every transaction, every communication, every crime that Marcus had committed. There were recordings of his boasts and his threats. There were the medical profiles of the thousands of people that Marcus had been planning to use as leverage.
What emerged during the trial was a picture of a brilliant, utterly ruthless criminal mastermind who had orchestrated a conspiracy of staggering scope and complexity. Marcus had not just been running a local crime organization. Marcus had been building a global network designed to contro
