Nick reached the Four Season Hotel and ran to the elevator section and waited for the same elevator where he had found Ro-Ena from the day before. When the door opened, it was empty. He waited to pass by a few floors then leaning over to where the buttons where pulling the "stop" button, sending the elevator into a complete halt. Nick searched the entire elevator intricately then looked up at the ceiling, pondering on what to do next. He tiptoed himself then reached his arm up to tap the ceiling of the elevator, only to realize that it could be pushed up and give access to the elevator shaft. He moved over the piece of material that was used as a ceiling aside as it gave entrance into the shaft. Nick jumped and quickly grabbed hold of a part of the ceiling and pulled himself up into the actual duct, which was a bit dim and the only light that provided a way to see was one small light bulb from up above the very top of the shaft.

Nick didn’t know what he was looking for precisely but he was sure over one thing: that Jay could have in fact really been inside the elevator with Ro-Ena and when he realized that someone was trying to pry opened the door, he had gone up into the duct to hide out and not risk getting caught. Nick looked below the space he was standing on and saw the build-up of dust and saw footprints. He knew the ones that were his, which was all of them, and finger-marks, which also belonged to him when he had boosted himself up earlier. "If Jay was up here yesterday, where are his prints?" he asked himself as confusion took over him.

In that moment, he didn’t know what to think. The dust particles that was all over the space he was standing on was thick enough to tell Nick that it had just not been collected during that day and covered up Jay’s prints: it was impossible for dust to gather that quickly.

"Shit," he ranted at himself while jumping back down inside the elevator and putting the cover back up in its original position. "None of this is making sense," he said while reaching over, pressing the ‘stop button’ off as the elevator continued its ride up to the 32nd floor. "If Jay was here with Ro-Ena and he went through the elevator shaft to escape, his prints should be all over up there…but where are his prints? They can’t just disappear! Even if he wiped it off, dust particles doesn’t gather that quickly in the span of a day!"

His continuous reasoning of the situation sparked a sensation of a headache approaching. While pressing the bridge of his nose with his thumb and pointer-finger, he swiftly made his way down the hallway that will ultimately lead him in his hotel room.

Frustrations were beginning to grow on Nick. He wanted to catch Jay once and for all, but Ro-Ena was right; he was a mastermind in covering his tracks and making it seem like as if he disappeared in thin air. All that he was sure of is that the gut intuition he was feeling in that moment was as good as true. He believed Ro-Ena; he believed that Jay was in fact in that elevator with Ro-Ena trying to take her life away. How he managed to disappear without a trace was beyond him, but he convinced himself that with enough persistence and hard work, the truth will surface and all will be right again.