Chapters 5-9 Summary

In Chapter 5, Streator meets Helen Hoover Boyle at one of her homes where she talks on the phone while she shows him around. Streator tells Helen that he knows her son Patrick died twenty years ago and that her husband died almost a year later of no apparent cause. Helen becomes upset when Streator mentions the poem and asks him to leave.

In Chapter 6, Duncan asks Streator to call the number in a couple of ads for apparent class action lawsuits. At each number the same voice answers and Duncan suggests they might do a story about them. Streator then reads the culling song to Duncan, saying he wants to conduct an experiment.

In Chapter 7, Streator learns the next day that Duncan did not come into work and now he is forced to work with the unpleasant Henderson. Streator becomes irritated...