Kovacs doesn't know enough about Earth history to catch the difference. Eccentric clothes, eccentric house, Kovacs is looking for the sliced tiger.

The guy did make one mistake, though. Stone like this echoes like a motherfucker. There have to be places where it twists sounds, picks them up and reverberates them. Kovacs walks in, and for one of the few times in his life, doesn't take off his shoes. He clacks them every chance he can get on that floor, listening, listening.

"Helluva place you got here."