The narrator tells us that he caught the flu, and that his headache is killing him. He's worried about his mom, but she hasn't pushed him away. He tells her that his dad is home, but that he looks pale and has a slight fever. He asks her what happened, and she tells him that the building his father designed collapsed a month ago, killing 10 people. The court has determined that the cause of the collapse was the failure of the building's load bearing walls. The narrator doesn't believe it, but now he does.