Summary

Walker attempts to call Gitana, the 16-year-old girl with whom he went on a date, but she does not answer. He visits a few bars, and outside of one, he finds a man weeping over another man's bloody body. Shortly thereafter, he attends a Christmas-themed lunch at a church in Bunker Hill and meets another veteran, an African-American man named Al who fought in World War I. Walker stays inside during New Years, fashioning makeshift earplugs to drown out the noise of fireworks.

Walker watches the movie that Joseph H. Lewis was filming when he met him, and another movie called Kiss Me Deadly. He finds Billy on Skid Row with a man named Frank, a veteran whose face is badly disfigured from being tortured by a troop of Germans. When he tells Walker the name of the unit that hurt him, Walker...