Nicholas stumbles out of the house and through the streets. He sits with the book and flips to different sections. The story and the images of his mother torment his mind. He pees on the book and kicks it out of sight. In a daze, Nicholas goes to the nearby drug house. He throws up, but makes it inside and curls up on the floor. Nicholas thinks about how his mother’s life would be different if he had died in the accident. In the bathroom, he calls Catherine and sobs into her answering machine. He sits back down on the dirty sofa and feels like the run-down house is the only place he truly belongs.

Catherine remembers the police investigation after the accident. She denied knowing Jonathan, so the police let her and Nicholas fly home to England. When she got home, she concealed a bite mark on her neck and decided she didn’t need to tell Robert the truth, since Jonathan was dead. 

At 4:00 am, Catherine receives a phone call from Nicholas, but she doesn’t get to the phone in time. She listens to his sobs on her voicemail and rushes out of her mother’s house. She takes a taxi to her house, where Nicholas is supposed to be.