Tom’s Reviews > White Noise > Status Update

Heinrich comes into his element talking about the event. Babette reads horoscopes and predictions to the blind. Heinrich talks to Jack about how nobody knows anything, how if you went back in time, you wouldn’t know how to make glass or what a nucleotide is. Jack is told that death might be inside him. Murray reassures him.

The airborne toxic event. Really great seeing this family dynamic we’ve learnt so much about and how it bends to this disaster. Delayed symptoms. Description of black cloud. Heinrich gleeful.

More back-and-forth between Jack and Heinrich. All really good. Babette appears on TV.

It was her all right, the face, the hair, the way she blinks in rapid twos and threes. I'd seen her just an hour ago, eating eggs, but her appearance on the screen made me think of her as some distant figure from the past, some ex-wife and absentee mother, a walker in the mists of the dead. If she was not dead, was I?

Bee’s presence makes them all self conscious.

Tweedy and Bee show up in Iron City. A plane almost goes down and a survivor tells Jack all about it.

Misinformation in the family. They go shopping.

Wilder cries for nearly seven hours straight.

Hitler/Elvis.

The Treadwells show up confused and hiding in a cookie shack in a mall. The police consult a psychic as to their whereabouts and she leads them to guns and heroin.

Jack has a German lesson. Denise’s dad visits. The old man Babette teaches goes missing. The river gets dragged the next day.