The midnight hour approaches in an almost empty all-night diner.
Meanwhile Eri is at home and sleeps a deep, heavy sleep that is \'too perfect, too pure\' to be nor.
Later, Mari is interrupted a second time by a girl from the Alphaville Hotel; a Chinese prostitute has been hurt by a client, the girl has heard Mari speaks fluent Chinese and requests her help.
Both have missed the last train home.
Mari sips her coffee and glances up from a book as a young man, a musician, intrudes on her solitude.
The midnight hour approaches in an almost empty all-night diner