Sleuth plays football in the Ritz Carlton: Postlude

There remains only the summing up.

Throughout the remainder of the evening, the Fab Four were summoned on several occasions to return to the Ritz for questioning, etc.
Each time, they were escorted by Jessie H.
Each time, they walked through the front entrance of the Ritz.
And each time, the Foursome were met by multiple Ritz staff and personnel, who opened the doors and stood at attention as they whooped and hollered and applauded and shook the hands of the unlikely heroes.

[PICTURE: Eagle-Eye Jonathan identifies the captured crook]

Jessie H. was a likeable character, and the Fab Four soon felt comfortable enough to converse with Jessie about the events of the evening. It didn't take long to discover that the whole thing had been recorded on the hotel's video surveillance camera. The boys pleaded with Jessie to see it, but he firmly resisted (and probably with good legal reason). Daniel was perhaps the most visibly frustrated, and Jessie finally offered this consolation: "I've been a security guard and personal body guard for celebrities for a long time, and I've seen a lot of surveillance tapes - but I've never seen anything like this. You guys were AWESOME!"

Say no more, Jessie, say no more.

The next morning, the Manager/Operator of the Phoenix Ritz honored the Four before the entire Blackstone group, and he presented them with multiple Ritz gifts, including clothing and gift certificates for a free night stay at any Ritz in the world.

Later that morning, the Boys were summoned to the hotel lobby, where they learned that the $140,000 worth of jewelry had been on loan from a local jeweler, and did not actually belong to the Ritz. As a token of gratitude, the local jeweler brought the Four to his store, where he presented them each with a new $550 watch, along with several hundred dollars worth of men's cologne and women's perfume.

After the final Blackstone banquet on Thursday night, the Four, along with dozens of other interns, had lingered in the conference hall taking pictures and enjoying the last few hours in the Ritz. Slowly, the numbers had dwindled as more and more folks left to return to their rooms or to head to Nixon's. Sleuth, Jonathan and Chris remained, talking with the few lawyers and other distinguished guests who were still in the conference hall. As they turned to leave, they stopped to shake hands with the head of Blackstone's parent organization and the banquet's key note speaker, Alan. After they thanked him for his speech and for helping make Blackstone possible, Alan turned to them both and offered one last parting charge to the three young men:

"Now, go change the world."

Charged with those words of exhortation, and a mere twenty minutes later, those three men (and their valuable fourth partner) seized the day and the opportunity to live up to Alan's challenge. And while they were at it, they seized a couple of would be criminals too.
[Video footage of the Fab Four retelling the entire event is forthcoming]

[Picture: three of the four with Alan]