- They arrive at Thea's house. Or maybe it's her husband's house.
- Augie figures he'll learn in due time.
- They're served lunch and eat.
- Augie is introduced to the manager of a luxury hotel that's next door.
- Caligula begins his training hunting small lizards.
- Jacinto, a boy, brings them a larger lizard to try.
- It attacks the bird.
- Thea yells at Caligula for his cowardice.
- She's upset, believing fierce nature shouldn't protest at a little nip.
- Later they lay together in bed. Augie wonders about their love and purpose.
- They go to a local bar. A lot of the people there know Thea.
- Most of the folks assume that Augie is the master of the bird. He explains the truth.
- Wiley Moulton, a weird-story writer, asks about their plan with the bird.
- He says maybe Iggy Blaikie can help write about the eagle if he cannot.
- They rent horses from the uncle of a man named Talavera whom Augie doesn't like.
- They try working with Caligula on a burro. The horse isn't keen about an eagle riding on him.
- They settle on an old horse named Bizcocho.
- They take him out.
- Thea has Caligula chase down an iguana, but he gets bitten in the neck, and gives up.
- Enraged, Thea throws rocks at him. Augie tries to calm her.
- The bird flies away.
- They find him later on the roof of their home.
- Augie goes out with some meat. Caligula flies to him.
- A week goes by. Only Augie pays attention to the eagle.
- It rains heavily and Augie mostly reads.
- Thea sends him out for photographic paper.
- He passes beggars at the cathedral and leaves some change, continuing on his way.
- Someone calls to him. It's Wiley Moulton. He invites him up.
- Augie sits down at a table and is introduced to a man in his fifties named Oliver and a much younger woman named Stella. Augie thinks she's outstandingly beautiful.
- Moulton calls Augie by the name of Bolingbroke, asks him if he minds.
- They chat about Thea and about whether the eagle is a flop.
- Oliver is the editor of a political magazine. He's not interested in a story about the bird.
- Stella invites Augie to have a drink with them at the Carlos Quinto.
- Augie gets back to the house determined to train Caligula.
- Thea is gone. She's gone out to hunt snakes.
- She returns later with two of them.
- Augie convinces her to give Caligula another try.
- They go out the next day.
- As Augie is about to release the bird, the old horse Bizcocho slips on the slope and falls.
- Augie falls himself and one of the horse's hoofs catches him square in the head.
- Lights out!