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Leaving the building in the hands of the “dustmen” and her purse behind, Hollis tells Garreth to stop the car when she sees emerge from a small car parked by the Phaeton, Inchmale and Heidi Hyde carrying a three-foot, gift-wrapped ax handle.

At a bar near the flat, Bigend tells Hollis that her purse is near Hastings and Main, “on foot, apparently” before getting on a bus as Hollis imagines him “watching this on that huge screen in his office. The world as video game.”

Inchmale tells Hollis that Bigend want The Curfew to record a $15M-budget video of “Hard To Be One” for a Chinese car commercial before telling him that he thought it would be good for him and Heidi to check in Hollis, who might be in trouble. [715 characters]