Chapter 5 Summary

The band arrives at a downtown Seattle motel and wonders how they will pay. Thomas thinks the bar that invited them ought to pay since they invited the band. He uses a telephone inside the motel. After Thomas completes his call, he informs his band that he misunderstood the invitation. The band was not invited to play, but they were invited to participate in a contest where the winning band receives $1000. Upon hearing that they will have to face twenty other bands, Victor wants to go home. Thomas says they do not have enough money to get home. They have only enough for food if they sleep in the van.

Checkers visits the church to meet Father Arnold. Checkers tells Father Arnold that she has quit the band. Checkers says that Victor and Junior are doing some bad things, and Checkers admits that...