...........I have to agree here, leaving us stranded on Cody's well being is a cliffhanger, with that and a body outside the bagel shop, another in a restroom!!
........Hush, you shadowy Cliffhanger person! Lest you forget that your last chapter left everyone hanging on the mysterious character outside the bagel shop and the unknown demise of a certain drugged out character in a gas station restroom.