Summary

The author interviews a series of experts about what Jake could plausibly do with the gold bar and what would be involved in him exchanging it for money, noting that it would be very difficult.

The author returns to the home of Lenny, the newspaper columnist and asks her if she is Jake’s mother. She admits that she is. She reveals that during the lockdown she moved out of her shared home after an altercation in which she was violent towards her partner Roger. She moved into a flat they owned in the city, in the building also occupied by Spencer, the owner of the farm and the gold bar. Lenny and Spencer began an affair. The interview veers off course into seemingly irrelevant complaints by Lenny about diversity and inclusion efforts in the corporate world, which Lenny says privilege racial diversity over...