This chapter is narrated by Marx in the second person, addressing himself as “you.” While Sadie and Sam are in New York, Marx is in a meeting with Adam and Charlotte Worth, a couple pitching a game called Our Infinite Days. In the game, a woman and her daughter travel through a desert apocalypse fending off zombies. The mother has amnesia and depends on her six-year-old daughter’s memory to guide them to the other side of the desert, where her husband and son await them. Marx likes the game and promises to discuss it with Sadie and Marx. Just then, two men with guns storm into their office downstairs, demanding to see Mazer, or Sam. Marx asks the Worths and Ant to stay upstairs and call the police. He leaves a note for Sadie and Sam asking them to consider Our Infinite Days.

He approaches the gunmen, who are quite young and have their faces covered with bandanas. The gunmen say they want to kill Sam for his support of marriage between members of the same sex. They ask him to call Sam. Marx tells them Sam is away and makes the calls to prove it, but Sam and Sadie, away at the shoot, are unable to answer.