EpilogueCase file #721: Second Shot.
He could picture the marquee of The Harold Calloway Theatre on this night. Ablaze with klieg lights outside, the red carpet covering the sidewalk on West 47th Street. Paparazzi taking photographs. He knew them. Joseph, Ritchie, the whole gang of regulars who specialized in the celebration of what Broadway called Opening Night.
Jimmy had been asked to work another shift for Maggie. She needed extra help for their big night.
But he’d said no to the work days ago, it was important to him to be in the audience. Jonathan Tolliver was his plus one, both to the performance and at the after-party. It was all he could do to thank the man for so capably filling the role vacated by Ralphie. Jimmy missed that man, his guidance and wisdom.
He could use a bit of
