despite the refusal by jack's editor, emma, to let him investigate the rock star's death, he continues regardless. parked outside cleo's condominium one night, jack sees her with a young male lover. emma relents and gives jack a week to investigate jimmy's death. he tracks down jay burns, the slut puppies' old keyboardist, and jimmy's dive partner. jay is heavily stoned, but to jack it is obvious he is lying about something. later that night, a burglar breaks into jack's apartment and attacks him with the frozen corpse of a dead savannah monitor lizard kept in his freezer. jack is beaten unconscious, but the burglar disappears. a few hours later, two police detectives show up and tell him jay has been found murdered.