Summary

In Chapter 20, Lincoln took a trip upstairs to the writers' rooms. He set out to find Beth's desk and was able to identify it through a poster of Sandman. He tried to look busy in fear of raising suspicion, but he looked at Beth's photographs and objects on her desk to try to get a sense of her through them. Lincoln was particularly concerned with Beth's boyfriend, Chris. Eventually, Lincoln felt some kind of self-awareness that what he was doing was wrong and noted that, "He shouldn't have done that. What he'd just done. Gone to her desk. It felt wrong, like he'd crossed a line" (80). Still, he was glad that he did not find a picture of Beth so that at least he could protect her privacy that way. A brief snippet of conversation between Lincoln and Eve revealed that he felt...