Summary

The day after the party, Chacho was still staying with his father in the guitar factory. Sor Artemesia warned Matt not to wait too long to try to fix the friendship.

Matt went to visit the new doctor that was in Ajo to cure the eejits. Dr. Kim told Matt that he’d been trying to get the microchips out, but he hadn’t been successful and he had to kill an eejit. Matt was appalled that the doctor was killing eejits in the process. He warned Dr. Kim firmly that he was to kill no more eejits, only cure them. His voice, when he gave the directive, came out chilling and violent, like El Patron’s voice. When Matt left Dr. Kim’s office, he heard the patron’s voice in his head: "You showed him!"

Dr. Kim had told Matt that...