Chapter 15 Summary

Case flips the flipflop and watches Molly's progress through her eyes. Wintermute notifies Molly that Case is present. As she makes her way through the Villa Straylight, guided by Wintermute, Molly whispers a story to Case. She tells him about how she was once in love, and how she, with her boyfriend, operated a shady business. They eventually started to double-cross various clients with a blackmail scheme. Her boyfriend was then assassinated by a ninja. She says, "Never much found anybody I gave a damn about, after that" (p. 231). She compares Case to her earlier boyfriend.

Wintermute continues to lead her through the Villa Straylight until she finds a key embossed with the word CHUBB hidden in a filing cabinet. Case goes back to cyberspace and checks on the progress of the virus. He exits cyberspace and checks with Maelcum, who informs him...