Chase is skeptical when he receives Brendan’s invitation. He believes Brendan has an idea for a video and just wants help shooting it. He longs to be involved with the video club again, especially to experience laughter and joy, since he has nothing to laugh about. He is most sad because he realizes he is a criminal, even though he does not remember committing the crime. Chase questions how he could have done something so wrong. He does not know how to make it right, since he does not know where he hid Solway’s Medal of Honor. He fears one day he might remember, only after the old man dies.

While he longs to see the video group again, the pain of their rejection hurts him deeply. He thought their friendship was sincere and that they were all beginning to trust him. After wrestling with whether to attend the gathering, he decides to go to Brendan’s house.

As he walks out his front door, he sees workers loading furniture for the neighbors, the Tottenhams, who are moving. He sees them carrying a portrait of “the little girl in the blue dress” (201), the one memory he had after his accident.