altered carbon ch 19 through 24

CH 19 - they go to the fight club.  Take spends the whole time acting like he's Ryker cause the fight guy thinks he's Ryker.  They've got some awesome sleeves.  Tak asks what the point is of having someone in the latest greatest sleeve fight against an old and basically gets the it's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog speech.

CH 20 there's a bit of flirting as Ortega drops off Tak at his hotel.  She says to stick around cause she wants him to talk to someone later, might take a while to set it up.  Bancroft's driver is waiting for Tak at the hotel says they need to talk.  He's relaying a message from Mrs. Bancroft asking again if he wants to take her up on her sex island invitation.  The driver is jealous and picks a fight with Tak.  Tak explains how outmatched the driver is.  An envoy isn't human.  They strip away your humanity to turn you into a killing machine.  It was work for him not to kill people.  The driver is currently alive because Tak put in the extra effort to fight against his killer instinct.  Then a cop shows up and they talk about Ryker.  The question I cared about most was how long Ryker is locked up for.  It's 200 years.  Tak thinks ortega is a little nuts for paying the sleeve storage.  So do I.  The cop explains that Ryker was a good cop as far as he knew.  He thinks Ortega's theory that Ryker isn't guilty of all they say about him might be right, but he doesn't know.  Ryker got put away cause he went up to Seattle for some vigilante justice.  He put 124 holes in the car he was chasing.  

CH 21. Ortega and Tak go on a virtual reality call to meet the lady that was seven months pregnant with Laurent Bancroft's baby and Miriam Bancroft beat up so she lost the baby.  She thinks Miriam killed Laurents.  When they get done with the call there's people waiting to kill them.  They do not succeed.

CH 22 something one of the would-be killers said makes Tak think it's Kadmin.  He tells this horror story from his home world.  He tells her to write down a location for them to meet in secret.  He tells her to check the stacks at the police cause he's certain it's Kadmin trying to kill him and if Ortega sees he's not in the stack, that will confirm it.

CH 23 a lady sleeve doctor tells Tak that nefarious people have been doing bad things with sleeves at her precinct for a long time and she turned a blind eye.  She gives him a disk, which I suppose will help tak find kadmin.

CH 24 Tak goes to Seattle and kidnaps a bad science guy that did things to Ryker's body.  Then a lady shows up.