Part One, Maggie Rose and Shrimpie Goldberg (1992), Chapters 11-15 Summary

FBI Special Agent Roger Graham is returning home when a man identifying himself as a reporter comes up to the car and begins speaking to Graham. Graham is polite, stopping to speak, which proves to be fatal when the reporter turns out to be Soneji. Soneji cuts Graham's throat and leaves him to bleed to death in his own driveway. The next day, Cross and Sampson go to Soneji's apartment. Cross finds research on various famous kidnappings and pictures of famous people on the wall, including criminals, with a headline that reads, 'I want to be someone'. Cross feels this is important insight into the mental state of the kidnapper.

Maggie Rose wakes in the buried box to find herself in complete darkness and dying of thirst...