The narrator recalls an Italian documentary recommended by Vito, which featured nine-year-old Franck and an interview with a middle-aged prostitute who works Rome's Termini station. The narrator describes having once visited the area, with its bleak postwar apartment blocks and laundry hanging from windows.

In the film, the prostitute is interviewed in her tidy, airless kitchen, dressed primly in Nutella-colored synthetic clothes. The filmmaker asks her how she pleases a man, and she demonstrates a light caress on her own arm. She describes her routine of bathing and setting her hair before work, says she could not go with a fifteen-year-old because he'd remind her of her son, and admits the first client of each day anguishes her.

Asked what she'd like to say about her life, she offers a rehearsed anecdote about using a screwdriver on a client. When asked about her dreams, she becomes inward, describing dreams of the dead who tell her mundane things but recede when she tries to ask about the afterlife. She defines hell as a place where one cannot see God, and her eyes water as she looks away to suppress tears.

The narrator connects this gesture to the boy with the chin-line beard, recalling his filmed confession in which interrogators lied that Nancy had turned state's evidence. The boy cried in the same averted way. The narrator reflects that she betrayed the boy as her job, but he betrayed her by mounting an entrapment defense that got her fired. She blames Nancy more, emotionally, viewing the boy as weak and rudderless and Nancy as strong and vengeful. Nancy and the boy remain together, fighting their case, with journalists referencing the unidentified agent only by her alias, "Amy."