- Lin suffers in the inhumane prison conditions.
- Another prisoner tries to steal Lin's aluminum plate from him, and he beats him up, head-butting him over and over and finally biting his face.
- This earns him the admiration of Mahesh, another prisoner.
- They wait for three weeks, when a truck comes to transport everyone to the Arthur Road Prison.
- Lin is marched down a gauntlet of guards who beat him with bamboo sticks. Finally he's led to the dormitories.
- His bed is infested with a parasite bug that sucks his blood all night, every night.
- Mahesh, who is in the bed next to him, warns him never to do anything back to the guards or overseers, no matter what they do to him.