On the top floor of the Parker-Morris Building, the Narrator counts down the final ten minutes before the building is demolished by a bomb planted by Project Mayhem. The bomb will topple the building and destroy the museum below, “which is Tyler’s real target” (14). Tyler Durden holds a gun in the Narrator’s mouth, and he claims their murder-suicide is not death, but the start of eternal life.

The Narrator recalls details about how to build bombs, how to make napalm, and how to make a silencer for a gun—all things he did not know before he met Tyler. As the minutes pass, the Narrator thinks about the love triangle he, Tyler, and a woman named Marla Singer are in. He believes this love triangle is the catalyst for everything he and Tyler have done, including Project Mayhem.

At the three-minute-mark, the Narrator asks Tyler, “Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?” (15). The Narrator says he remembers everything, and that he will make Tyler a legend.