Chapter 22 Summary

Rick puts the phone down and stares at a toad he sees outside his car. He is surprised because although toads were said to be Mercer's favorite animal they have been extinct for years. He finds a box in his trunk and sets out to capture the toad.

We learn that people who find animals believed to be extinct receive an award and a million dollar-plus reward. He then wonders if he has gone crazy and become a chickenhead like Isidore. Rick lifts the toad out of its hole, and it struggles. He puts it in the box and closes the box. He then flies away, headed for San Francisco.

We next see Iran at the mood organ, trying to decide the appropriate mood. Rick arrives and she marvels that although he is dirty from the desert and bloody from rocks thrown at...