Chapters 7 and 8 Summary

Sughrue's initial efforts to track Betty Sue in San Francisco end almost entirely in failure. The exception is a meeting with Professor Richter, an academic "expert" on pornography who, after hearing a brief description of the movie referred to by Gleeson, pulls out a film and shows it, commenting that one of the men (Randall Jackson) in the film used to run a nearby porn store and now lives in Denver. Sughrue is upset to see that the woman in the film is indeed Betty Sue, is even more upset to see her apparent enthusiasm, and becomes still more upset when he realizes how fond Trahearne is of Rosie. He therefore tells Trahearne the girl in the film wasn't Betty Sue. They then track Betty Sue's friend from high school, Peggy Bain, to a drug party. While Trahearne, increasingly drunk and...