" Will""s dad grew discouraged without Caesar to keep him company.Will planned to develop a "more aggressive virus strain" with a "faster delivery method" to combat his father""s progressing dementia.Carroll), where he is old: "Nobody slept here for years."Lockwood cannot sleep, for the wind blows the shutter against the window all through the night.When he rises from his dusty bed to close the shutter, he hears a strange, ghostly, female voice, desperately crying: "Heathcliff.It""s looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to."The next morning, "Mr.Anderson" (Neo) was late for work at his software development company Metacortex in a downtown area, where he was a computer software programmer.Esther is surprised to see him there, and sober too! He compliments her, finding a tremendous ""jolt of pleasure"" in her unique singing style:There are certain pleasures you get, little - little jabs of pleasure when, when a swordfish takes the hook or - or - or when you watch a great fighter getting ready for the kill, see?He tells her she is a great singer just waiting to be discovered.To her shock, Brenda""s bloodied corpse was hurled hrough the kitchen window at her feet.[Alice didn""t know that she was now the sole remaining counselor - a sensible, virginal, ""good girl"" female who would be pitted against a psychopath.