The book is setting up that his relationship with erika burger is going to change. He's one of the two or three people in the entire country who actually believes, in calander, that she couldn't have done this. And so he's not only going to finish this dead guy's book, which he has to do, but he is going to save her. By the end of the book, when she is going to be in need of incredible medical care, she kind of realizes that she is beyond a point where she can take care of herself. She's goin have to ask an institution for assistance.