Chapters 4, 5 and 6 Summary

Sughrue visits the first person on the list of Betty Sue's friends given to him by Rosie—Charles Gleeson who, when Sughrue visits him in his home, reveals himself to be Betty Sue's former drama teacher. Tense conversation between the two men reveals that Gleeson believed that Betty Sue was an incredible acting talent with enormous potential. Sughrue quickly becomes tired of Gleeson's coy, mannered conversation and, graphically describing the torture techniques he learned when he was a soldier in Vietnam, he bullies Gleeson into admitting that he did consider having sex with Betty Sue, but didn't want to damage their professional relationship—he was, he also admits, planning to ride her possibly famous coattails. Gleeson also reveals that a few years ago he believed he saw Betty Sue in a porn movie in San Francisco—"it looked...