This chapter opens with a conversation between Isabella and Regan. Isabella asks Regan if her brother, Angelo, is dead. Regan tells her that he is, but that he has not spoken to his brother in ten years. He tells Isabella that his niece, Sophie, has been missing since her father's body was found the previous night. He says that they are doing all they can to find her, but they do not know if she has run away or if the murderer has taken her