Part 8 Summary

Later that day, Clay visits Daniel, who is playing Atari in his bedroom. Daniel is preoccupied with the games and responds with one word answers when Clay talks to him, especially about the return to school in New Hampshire. Daniel is especially evasive when Clay reminds him of an obligation to his girlfriend, Vanden.

Daniel wants to talk about a 16-year-old girl who lives somewhere nearby and whose drug dealer spends all day shooting her full of drugs for the sport of being gangbanged at parties every night. Daniel thinks this would be a good concept for a screenplay, but Clay is repulsed by the thought of it. Clay tries to convince Daniel to consider returning to school, but his efforts seem to be in vain so Clay leaves.

From a phonebooth in Beverly Hills, Clay calls his psychiatrist to tell him that...