The narrative picks up in Lebanon, with al-Nassouri’s teenaged contact. As instructed, the young boy prepares to have the virus delivered to Germany. Al-Nassouri plans to remove the authentic labels from seasonal flu vaccines and place them by hand on the bottles that contain smallpox virus. He estimates that the task will require nine days.

Murdoch arrives back in Turkey from Bulgaria. With no news from Battleboi, he decides to go back to Dodge’s case to see if he can identify the woman he overheard. He finds a young American woman in the case file, who is Gianfranco’s girlfriend. Murdoch decides to interview her.

Murdoch receives a message from Battleboi buried in his spam folder, informing him that Cumali was educated in Bahrain and born in Saudi Arabia, but there is no information about her family. Desperate to think the case over, Murdoch walks on the beach and watches children playing. This makes him think of Cumali’s son, and he realizes that there are no pictures of the child’s early life in her home: Perhaps he is not her child.

To gather evidence for his new theory, Murdoch visits Cumali at home to explain his new theory of the case: that Ingrid is Cameron’s lover and accomplice.