This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous line from Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice. It's a quote from the play's title sequence, in which a merchant's ship is attacked by a ship of vampire blood. The ship sinks, and the merchant is left to fend for himself. He tells the ship's captain that he has no choice but to attack the ship because it's full of vampires. The captain tells him that he's the only one who can stop the ship, but the merchant refuses to listen to him. When the captain asks him what he should do, the merchant replies that he should kill the ship. He then tells the captain to kill the vampire who's trying to kill him. This is the first time the captain has heard of a vampire killing a human. He's shocked that the captain would want to kill a vampire, but he doesn't know what else to do.