- Karla, Prabaker, and Lin go to the Standing Babas' hash den. Karla is thrilled to finally get to go into the weird religious cult-drug ring.
- They smoke.
- A strange man with a sword comes in and screams, charging at Lin.
- A man trips the attacker, saving Lin's life.
- The man introduces himself as Adullah Taheri.
- They leave the hash den and go to Leopold's.
- Lin won't go in, and tells Karla he won't be coming around much anymore because he's beginning his slum adventure.
- Prabaker leads Lin past the super-stinky latrines and to his new home.
- Everyone comes out of their huts to look at the new arrival.
- Lin's new home is a black plastic sheet for a roof held up by bamboo poles. The walls are made of woven reeds and the floor is bare earth. He does have a door: a piece of plywood.
- He settles in and meets his neighbors: Anand, Rafiq, Jeetendra, and Radha.
- Anand casually remarks that there is a fire and, sure enough, smoke and flames engulf the slum.
- Lin runs away, then realizes that he looks like a coward. He changes course and runs toward the fire.
- Qasim Ali Hussein, the head man of the slum, directs the fire-fighting efforts.
- When the fire finally burns itself out, the people look for survivors and count up the bodies.
- Prabaker says that they are lucky because only twelve people died, including Raju.
- A woman brings a badly burned baby girl to the gathering and Lin decides to help with his first-aid kit.
- He continues working as the doctor, treating the victims of the fire until he collapses from exhaustion.
- When he wakes up, all of the neighbors are gathered around listening to him snore and watching him sleep.
- He has a line of patients waiting for him, and he gets to work at his new role in the slum: doctor.