Dale Gilbert­son, the police chief of French Land­ing, search­es through his clut­tered wal­let for a phone num­ber while his deputy, Tom Lund, dri­ves. He finds the num­ber and calls Jack Sawyer’s cell phone, only to be sur­prised when the call is answered by Hen­ry Ley­den, Jack’s blind friend. Hen­ry, rid­ing with Jack in his truck, hands the phone back to Jack, who reluc­tant­ly takes it. The con­ver­sa­tion reveals that the Fish­er­man, a ser­i­al killer, has con­tact­ed the police, claim­ing Irma Freneau’s body is at Ed’s Eats and Dawgs, a derelict din­er near Goltz’s.

Jack, ini­tial­ly skep­ti­cal about cell phones, pulls over to talk to Dale. He learns that the Fish­er­man called 911, hint­ing at Irma’s loca­tion. Jack shares his own dis­turb­ing dis­cov­ery: a box con­tain­ing Irma’s foot and Ty Marshall’s cap, deliv­ered to his doorstep. Dale, over­whelmed, admits his uncer­tain­ty about han­dling the case, while Jack advis­es him to secure the pay phone at the 7‑Eleven for fin­ger­prints, sug­gest­ing the killer may have grown care­less. Jack’s calm demeanor con­trasts with Dale’s near-pan­ic, high­light­ing the ten­sion between the two.

The nar­ra­tive shifts to a broad­er per­spec­tive, describ­ing the jour­ney of Jack and Dale toward Ed’s Eats and Dawgs. Gos­sip about the mur­der spreads quick­ly through the com­mu­ni­ty, reach­ing fig­ures like Beez­er St. Pierre, a griev­ing father and leader of the Thun­der Five motor­cy­cle gang. The scene is set with vivid imagery of the decay­ing din­er and the sur­round­ing over­grown land­scape, cre­at­ing an eerie atmos­phere. The chap­ter builds sus­pense as the char­ac­ters con­verge on the loca­tion, hint­ing at the grim dis­cov­ery await­ing them.

As Jack and Dale arrive at the dilap­i­dat­ed din­er, Jack scans the area for signs of dis­tur­bance, sig­nal­ing the begin­ning of their inves­ti­ga­tion. The chap­ter ends on a tense note, with the read­er antic­i­pat­ing the grue­some rev­e­la­tion of Irma Freneau’s fate. The inter­play between the characters—Jack’s resolve, Dale’s des­per­a­tion, and Henry’s eerie perceptiveness—adds depth to the unfold­ing mys­tery, set­ting the stage for the next devel­op­ments in the hunt for the Fish­er­man.