Part Two, Searching Behavior: Chapter Seven Summary

The chapter begins with Joe at a bank in Studio City. He has come here to withdraw funds in order to use money for transactions rather than his credit cards which can be traced. Once he leaves the bank he goes to the first of the families he intends to visit to ask if they have been visited by Rose. As he is driving to their home he experiences what is known as searching behavior. He sees his wife and daughter in a woman and child at a strip mall he is passing. He pulls in to the parking lot fully aware of what he is doing yet incapable of stopping himself. He apologizes for his mistake after he talks to the woman and the store owner becomes alerted to her distress. Joe...