Part 6 — Chapter 5

Summary

• Gaspery is at a party in a New York City art gallery in 2007, trying to find Vincent Smith and hoping to avoid Mirella Kessler due to a strange encounter with her in 2020.
• He sees Vincent and Mirella together and plans his next move; the crowd's behaviors, which seem bizarre to him, further unnerves him.
• He seizes an opportunity when Vincent and Mirella separate and approach Vincent to ask about her brother Paul's videos.
• He explains his suspicion that Paul didn't shoot the videos and describes a specific one in a forest that had a strange, dark glitch.
• Vincent confirms experiencing the glitch and hearing weird noises, leaving Gaspery feeling elated because the interview supports his investigation.
• However, his happiness fades as he acknowledges the tragic futures of the partygoers, thanks to his ability to know the future.
• He knows Vincent will disappear under mysterious circumstances, her husband will be arrested for fraud, Mirella will lose her husband to suicide, and she will eventually escape to Dubai due to a pandemic. In Dubai, Mirella ends up with Himesh Chiang, moves to London, survives the pandemic, has three children, and dies of pneumonia.
• Despite these certain futures, there are also uncertainties as Gaspery recalls Mirella accusing him of being arrested under an overpass in Ohio when she was a child, which unsettles him.
• Although he planned for 1918 to be his final trip, he realizes there will be one more destination after that, which is implied to be the event he was accused of in Ohio.