Chapter 4 Summary

Chapter 4 happens on the same Monday as Chapter 3. Marsha provides psychotherapy counseling to a teenager who has various personality disorders. After the session, she compares the teenager to VJ, and becomes even more worried that VJ is somehow abnormal or worse.

Meanwhile at the lab, Victor is agitated. He tries to review a computer file he has kept on Maurice Hobbs, but discovers it has been deleted. He discovers his file on Mark Murray has also been deleted. Then he receives a telephone call from Horace Murray, informing him that Mark Murray is near death in the hospital. Victor rushes to the hospital and discusses the case with the parents and the pediatricians. While he is there, Mark Murray dies. Victor is obviously distressed. He returns to the lab where he discovers his file on VJ has also been deleted. He asks his...