Chloe Townsend recognizes Bantling as her attacker

C.J. Townsend’s recognition of William Rupert Bantling transforms a courtroom encounter into the return of a trauma she had spent twelve years trying to contain. His voice and a scar above his wrist identify him, in her understanding, as the man who assaulted her when she was a law student in New York. The discovery gives a name to the attacker she had never seen unmasked, but it also makes the case she is prosecuting inseparable from her own history.