The next morning, Lin learns that the man who attacked him in the hallway was probably the same man who killed him at the beginning of the chapter. Lin tells Lin to stay away from his food, but Lin insists on eating it anyway. Lin then tells Lin that the alley where the attack took place has been cleaned up, and that he thinks something serious is about to happen at the hospital. Lin explains that the explosion is not a robbery or a terrorist attack, but is caused by a "variable" inside the hospital that he did not know about. Lin says that he will stay and help the people inside, but that he does not care about "the variable" because he needs a weapon right now.