Lying in bed, David thinks of the time he cheated on Elizabeth by having a one-night stand in college. He suspects that she did the same; that kind of sex having nothing to do with love. But then he is hit by the guilt that he “hesitated at the lake” the night of Elizabeth’s murder and “let the stronger man take [his] wife” (144). David gets out of bed and starts surfing on the web. By morning, he has a plan.

Gary Lamont, Rebecca’s husband, “didn’t panic right away” (144) when his wife does not come home, assuming that she is working late. However, when she is not home by morning, he calls Arturo, Rebecca’s assistant, and they meet at the door of her studio. Gary hears a scream.

David drives to the bit of interstate, off exit 163 at a town called Gardensville, where Elizabeth’s body was found. He goes to the Sussex County’s coroner’s office where he meets Dr. Timothy Harper. Dr. Harper blanches when David asks him if he remembers Elizabeth and the KillRoy case, which he did the autopsy for. David asks to see the Polaroid death photo, but Harper claims that it is at a storage facility in Layton, New Jersey.