In Chap­ter 122 of “All the Col­ors of the Dark,” Sain­t’s life unfolds amidst the chang­ing sea­sons of late sum­mer to autumn as she tracks a sus­pect in a series of bank rob­beries. Her exis­tence spans the dis­con­nect of a drea­ry cubi­cle in Kansas, a string of motels, and the insides of her clut­tered navy sedan, rem­nants of her on-the-road meals scat­tered like evi­dence of her relent­less pur­suit. With Nix’s advice to keep fit, she begins each day at five a.m., run­ning through famil­iar ter­rains, always armed.

After los­ing con­tact with Patch, Saint immers­es her­self in her work with Himes’s team, enhanc­ing her skills and gain­ing respect. Sta­tioned in an unmarked vehi­cle out­side a bland apart­ment com­plex, she focus­es on Micky Hubert, a man linked to a rob­bery at the Sum­mit Ridge Cred­it Union. After bran­dish­ing a weapon and steal­ing cash, Hubert’s escape was marked by a mini­van that Saint had traced back to his cur­rent loca­tion. Watch­ing Hubert’s move­ments, she reflects on the rel­a­tive­ly straight­for­ward nature of this case.

Con­fronting Hubert, who unsus­pect­ing­ly appeared in a robe, she appre­hends him and finds bait bills from a pre­vi­ous crime tucked in his pock­et, empha­siz­ing the futil­i­ty of his choic­es and his fed­er­al super­vised release sta­tus after pri­or offens­es. This pat­tern of crim­i­nal behav­ior becomes a repeat­ed theme in Sain­t’s inves­ti­ga­tions, lead­ing her to anoth­er sus­pect who, iron­i­cal­ly, robbed a bank he was tasked to pro­tect, only to be caught before­hand.

Amid a back­drop of per­son­al tur­moil, as she drifts away from her life in Mon­ta Clare and her strained rela­tion­ship with Jim­my, she feels the weight of her respon­si­bil­i­ties grow heav­ier. The calls from Jim­my’s moth­er reflect the emo­tion­al dis­tance that now defines their lives. Jug­gling her cas­es with feroc­i­ty, each crime felt as per­son­al as a theft from her own bank account. Col­lab­o­rat­ing with­in her unit, she cul­ti­vates new leads from infor­mants and orches­trates sur­veil­lance, ulti­mate­ly lead­ing to a sig­nif­i­cant oper­a­tion that pre­vents a half-mil­lion-dol­lar heist, draw­ing crit­i­cism for its media coverage—a tes­ta­ment to her frus­tra­tions in life and in her pro­fes­sion. In a world where the news cycle ampli­fies triv­ial mat­ters, Saint grap­ples with the recog­ni­tion she feels she deserves but does not receive .