- Since the weather is warm again, the Sunny Dixie Show is always crowded.
- Jake (who's still working there) tries to stop drinking, but the withdrawal is awful. He starts having very strange, vivid dreams about wandering through a crowd.
- Eventually, he meets the dude who wrote the graffiti on the wall. Unfortunately, the guy is a religious zealot, a fanatic named Simms.
- Jake is disappointed – he hates Simms. In fact, he likes to torment Simms and make him scream. Very nice, Jake.
- One day in April, a white girl with a hunchback and a black girl get into a fight over a ticket and nearly come to blows.
- As it turns out, Jake has to bust up fights quite a bit at the Show. Of course, he also starts some, too.
- At one point, he hears two guys who work at the show gossiping about him and calling him a crazy "Red Bolshevik" – they say that's he's pathetic and hilarious. Jake gets really upset and confronts them.
- Not so surprisingly, Jake starts drinking again.
- One night, he goes out into the street outside his apartment and starts screaming about how everyone is stupid and no one sees the truth.
- His neighbors tell him to shut up.
- Later in April, Jake finds the body of a young black man who has been murdered. (Never a dull moment around these parts.)
- Time goes on, and Jake spends most of it in an alcoholic daze.
- One day he goes to visit Singer and learns that Willie has come home. Jake wants to go see him and talk to him: he has the sudden urge to go on a justice crusade.
- And so, Singer takes Jake over to the Copeland house.