Summary

“When I wake up some seventeen hours later,” Bella says to the audience, “Christopher’s gone” (81). The other injections are nearby, untouched. The box with Christopher’s manuscript is still on the table. She opens it, and notices that there is nothing on the cover page other than the title, “a work of fiction attributed to no one and without a copyright line” (82). She notices a quote from Dostoevsky, referring to how it is possible to meet a perfect stranger and know them thoroughly at first sight.

Bella then narrates, in present tense, how Christopher’s body is found one night “facedown in the snow” (82). The body is found on New Haven Green, the same park visited by Bella in Scene 1. Bella describes how Christopher’s death is identified as having been caused by hypothermia, with his mother coming to claim his body and...