In this chapter, the Underground Man delivers a message from the underground to his son. The Underground Man tells his son that his mother is coming back, and that his father has sent him off to boarding schools to keep him away from his mother's "weird people" . He also tells him that William Bell has gone missing from a climate conference in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and tells him about the disappearance of a noted scientist in Switzerland. He tells his friends that he's trying to make his birthday a good one, unlike the last time he celebrated it with jamie. He asks shayne to stop trying to "sabotage" his life, and he tells his sister to listen to him, because the truth is "buried away" with his father. He says that he wonders if now "sweetheart conspiracies" around every turn will make him miserable, but he doesn't think he hasn't thought about his father "every single day." He asks his friends to "cancel junk" and "lay it on me," and he says that the odds are "stacked in his favor." He tells them to search his account for "best sellers community languages" and to "find history my account." He also says that his sister will perform a floor exercise that will heal his father's wounds.