Bateman gets involved in a farcical five-way phone conversation with McDermott, a colleague called Hamlin, Evelyn, and a woman named Jeanette over dinner reservations. They spend so much time debating over which restaurant to go to, and who to invite, that by the end most of the places they wanted to go to are closed.

Patrick tortures and kills another woman that he has lured back to his apartment. This time he does so by tying her up and forcing a live rat into her genitals before chain-sawing her in half.

Bateman meets Evelyn at another new restaurant. Both try and make each other jealous by commenting on the appearance of other diners. Patrick tricks Evelyn into eating a urinal cake that he has disguised as an expensive desert. He tells her that “my need to engage in homicidal behavior on a massive scale cannot be, um, corrected” (325). This is before he tells Evelyn that he is leaving her.