The chapter opens with a conversation between Dr. Rivers and Lockwood. Lockwood asks Lockwood if he would like a child. Lockwood says he doesn't want one right now, but if he did, it would be a "high-class alpha" . Lockwood tells him he's never thought about having a child, but that if he and Lockwood were to have one, there'd be a high chance that the child would be an "alpha." Lockwood worries that Lockwood's father might find out