Snow continues to cover the island, causing traffic accidents and injuries. The trial recesses in the afternoon, and then resumes with the prosecution calling Art Moran to the stand again. Hooks presents Moran with four pieces of rope, and Moran explains the difference between each one. Some were found on Carl Heine’s boat, but they do not match one another. Instead, they match ropes found on Kabuo’s boat. Moran infers that Kabuo had tied his boat to Heine’s. Hooks asks Moran why he searched Kabuo’s boat; Moran explains that he secured a search warrant for it after Etta Heine insisted that Kabuo had a motive to murder Carl.

At the end of the day after Heine’s body had been recovered, Sherrif Moran asked Judge Lew Fielding for a search warrant to locate a kendo stick that could be the cause of the gouge on Heine’s head. The judge grants the warrant for Kabuo’s boat but not his home.

Meanwhile, Kabuo places a battery in his boat. Though he is not usually superstitious, he worries when he sees a flock of seagulls. Moran arrives with the warrant, and Kabuo reads it while Moran searches. Moran confiscates a gaff with a steel hook on one end.