The Windup Girl

Emiko sips water, grateful to be cooled. Hock Seng and Mai ask if she carried out the killings. Emiko admits to it, and contemplates killing both Hock and Mai, but she is tired. At that moment, Anderson and Carlyle enter the flat, laughing. Anderson asks Hock Seng what he wants. Hock says that the killer of the Somdet Chaopraya is valuable, and he wants a future. Carlyle retreats but Anderson sits down on the couch and winces. He asks Emiko if she killed the men and she confesses that she did so because they abused her. Anderson asks if she is a trained killer, but she says she is not. He says she could kill them all in an instant. Anderson tells Hock Seng he can’t have Emiko, then tells Hock that he can have his clipper ship company back and can keep Mai around. Carlyle re-enters, not having fled after all. Anderson tells Emiko he will get her away and then coughs violently. Mai recognizes that he has contracted the same illness as the factory workers exposed to the algae baths.