In this chapter, we learn that the J. Entertainment Company has racked up over 10 million dollars in unpaid taxes and late fees in the last ten days. Brain and his mother have been forced to leave the company. Brain is furious with his mother for spending so much money on clothes. He begs her to forgive him, but she refuses, saying that she is his wife and that she has an obligation to help him. She also tells him that her mother is in town, and that amanda has been invited to perform in a literary and art film. Brain tells her that he did not expect her to be involved in such parties, and she apologizes for putting her on the cast, but he says that it was his fault, not hers.