watching, waiting, raping
- Ed keeps the whole robber-threatening-him thing under wraps; the guy only got six months in jail, so he doesn't really want to think about it too much.
- Now back to the Ace of Diamonds. Ed's decided to give this thing a go by checking out the first address—but when he goes to visit Edgar Street, he chickens out.
- Finally Ed makes it there two nights later. It's in a not-so-nice part of town that Ed only knows about because Marv used to date a chick named Suzanne Boyd here.
- Ed gets to the house just in time to see a large drunk guy yelling at his wife. Then he rapes her. As the wife screams out in pain, Ed realizes he's been sent to care about this poor woman.
- A little girl is on the porch crying. Can you blame her? Ed watches as she waits for her mom to stop screaming out and then she goes back inside. Ugh.
- Ed feels for the girl and her mom, and he wants to help, but he's too afraid—the guy is huge, after all. So Ed leaves, but he knows he's got to take care of the guy.