 Frank Hoenikker admits that he once gave Monzano a piece of "ice-nine", and the Hoenikkers explain that when they were young their father would give them hints about the existence of "ice-nine" while experimenting with it in the kitchen.After their father's death, they gathered chunks of the substance into thermos flasks and have kept them ever since.Festivities for the narrator's presidential inauguration begin, but during an air show performed by San Lorenzo's fighter jets, one of the jets malfunctions and crashes into the seaside palace, causing Monzano's still-frozen body to fall into the sea.