Tyler’s Paper Street Soap Company begins bringing in money. Nordstrom orders 200 bars of a facial soap. Each bars retails at 20 dollars, and the Narrator estimates they can do some much-needed repairs on their house and still be able to go out on a Saturday night. The Narrator sees the potential for the soap company, and speculates that if business keeps picking up, he could quit his office job for good. Tyler and the Narrator decide to park their car in an abandoned car lot strewn with other discarded material goods.

They eat dinner and discuss Tyler’s manipulation of Marla and her mother. Tyler has been impersonating Marla in Western Union telegrams so her mother will send fat from her liposuction procedures. He stockpiles the fat in his freezer and uses it to make more soap. Marla found their backstock and discovered what they had been doing with it, and she physically attacked the Narrator despite his insistence that Tyler had done it, not him. The Narrator runs out of the Paper Street house, leaving Marla alone to tear the place apart, and he runs until he finds Tyler.