- Barrington Whelk sits outside a gas station, eating a sub-par burger and trying to decide what he's going to do next. He needs to figure something out, especially now that the police are on his tail.
- As he's sitting there, the pay phone beside him starts to ring. It keeps going until Whelk picks it up out of curiosity, and finds that Neeve is on the other end.
- She tells him that she's changed her mind about helping him with the ley lines.