While preparing to make the life cast, Janelle notices that the narrator’s body is covered in scales. He explains that they are tattoos meant to cover up scars, including his cigarette burn, though his internal monologue suggests that he is telling only a half-truth.

The makeup team starts applying the latex, which will stay on the narrator for 90 minutes. They give him hand signals to ask for help, as well as a notebook for messages. The narrator is comfortable for a while, imagining what would happen if he was left inside the cast overnight. When the plaster hardens, the narrator feels trapped.

Ninety minutes later, the narrator is freed from the cast. Janelle observes that the scales indented his chest mold. The narrator ominously gives no explanation for it.

The narrator wears the mask back into Valentina’s house, observing the no-talking rule that he had exercised as the Thin Kid on set. Valentina leads him into her office and lets him watch her upload the film clips to YouTube, as well as the screenplay to her website and other sites.

Valentina then brings the narrator upstairs to her room. She asks him to lie down on her bed but pretend he is under it.