Back at the Laundry, there's a standoff between the police and the crew on the ship. If anyone leaves the ship, they'll be arrested by the police; food is becoming scarce.
Suddenly Fish (one of the boxtrolls) leaves the ship. The police don't really care, though, so a bunch of other boxtrolls join him, and then they return with food for everyone. Yay.
Marjorie eats a doughnut and then tells Willbury that this is all her fault. The Trouts stole her invention and gave it to Snatcher, and it's her invention that's behind all this.
And what exactly is her invention? It's a resizing machine. Snatcher's using it to shrink underlings⦠but then the question is, where is all the size going?
This also explains why Snatcher's men are blocking routes to the underground: so they can easily trap underlings and then feed their size to the machine.