Victor is in his suburban home in Los Angeles when he receives an automatic telephone call telling him to visit his neighbor, Charles Kluge. Kluge and Victor have never been particularly close, but nor have they been anything less than cordial to one another. After entering Kluge’s home, Victor finds his neighbor dead, his head across a computer keyboard. When Detective Osborne arrives at the scene of the crime, he asks Victor how he knew to visit his neighbor’s house. Victor shows Osborne his telephone, which had been ringing nonstop all day. Osborne says he suspects Kluge’s death to have been a suicide, even if the man left no note. Upon reentering Kluge’s house, Victor and Osborne see that Kluge left an interactive suicide note on a computer, a new-fangled technology that Victor knows little about. A little pixelated man on the screen shoots himself in the head, frightening Victor. Afterward, Victor goes home. He shivers all night in memory of what he just saw.