Episode 2: The Second Yacht - Silk and Smoke, #1

Case 1: The Widow's Game continues at dawn. Elena Hale summons Jack Colder back to Harbor Six, but the original crime scene has already shifted. The yacht from the night of the fall is still tied up, but she's standing on a newer, cleaner boat — a second yacht with a hidden safe only two palms can open: hers and her missing husband's. When Jack opens it, it's empty. That is the point. Elena wants him to see an empty safe so that when something appears in it later, he knows it was planted. While she's staging proof on the water, Jack is in the morgue pulling a latex lift of the dead man's palm — the same palm the harbor scanners were told belonged to David Hale. Someone has already been impersonating the dead man to make this disappearance look simple. Now Jack can do it too. The Second Yacht is a precision episode about leverage: Elena needs to stay clean in front of the Hale family, Jack needs to stay ahead of whoever is loading that safe, and both of them know Davos is close enough to have touched the boat. What started as a quiet "my husband fell" story is now a three-way contest over a safe that didn't hold anything ... yet.