In this short scene, the narrator tells us that he's not afraid of death. He's just trying to find out what happened to his dead wife. He has a hunch that she's dead and that her body is in a cemetery in a town called Kedah. He burns all of her clothes and stuffs them into a big bowl, and then he pours the contents into the ground. He figures out that there's a lot of money in there, and he wants to make sure that it's all there for the right reasons. He wants to know why the woman hasn't come back yet, and why the baby is gone. He asks the woman to give him a tip, and she gives him one: the baby's gone. The narrator can't believe that the woman would leave her baby in such a deserted place. He turns on the lights, and his shoulders hurt. He doesn't know what's going on, and the baby feels "like a rock" . He wonders why anyone would