Chapter 15, Whiskey, Torture, Turgenev Summary

Junior and the Narrator watch as Big Boy moves mechanically throughout the apartment demolishing literally everything with routine movements devoid of emotion. Junior explains that the devastation will convince the System that the encounter had been with Semiotecs. Then Big Boy pins the Narrator and Junior takes out a knife, sterilizes the blade, and slashes the Narrator's stomach. Junior postulates that the Narrator will of course cooperate with them because it is his only real alternative; Junior appears to know all about the skull, the shuffling, and the older gentleman's scientific work. Finally, the two hooligans leave. Within a few minutes three inspectors from the System arrive and survey the damage. While two operative peruse the apartment the third interviews the Narrator who decides his only option is, in fact, with the two hooligans. He therefore denies...