é um pouco desconexa, mas Travnicek é mostrado recebendo um aviso de despejo:
“Goddamn the woman!” Travnicek said. His hand, which was holding a letter, trembled with rage. “I’ve been evicted!” He brandished the letter.
Mais tarde, a gangue nat é mostrada roubando uma van:
It had been easy. While Flush and Sweat pretended to have a fight on the pavement in front of the moving van, Ricky and Loco had simply walked up to the van, liberated a pair of boxes apiece, and walked off into the street. The tall geezer who was moving hadn’t even noticed that some boxes were missing. Ricky patted himself on the back for the idea.
They didn’t get opportunities like this very often anymore. Nat turf was getting smaller. Joker gangs like the Demon Princes were swallowing more territory. How the hell could you fight something that looked like a squid?
Nunca é explicado diretamente, mas o leitor é levado a concluir que a van em movimento era a de Travnicek, já que a gangue encontra as fitas de memória do ModMan, assim como o shifter de singularidade.
Eu acho que o autor deixou esta vaga para quebrar a "cadeia de custódia", para mostrar que ninguém poderia conectar o shifter de singularidade a Travnicek.