Still coping with Molly's suicide, one of her coworkers is traumatized anew when another acquaintance of his commits suicide as well. He is consumed by two suicides of the most unlikely people: he obsessively thinks of Roger despite not being close to him, and if not thinking of Roger's suicide, he is thinking of Molly's. As he copes with her death, he reminisces on his affair with her, unlocking a new level of grief. While on a hunting trip, trying to distract himself from the deaths, all he can think of is Roger's suicide: him turning the gun slowly upon himself, for reasons that he can only guess. He believes that the reason grieving them is so difficult is because he can never know what drove them to it. It burdens him enough that they each individually were driven to suicide, but he is tortured, wondering why their deaths overlapped in multiple ways, from time span to affected parties. Prepared to cope with it indefinitely, he reflects on how coincidences exist because people search for connections in their lives, between past occurrences and present.