The narrator realizes that he is just words on a page. He realizes that he is being observed by something beyond his understanding, and that he will cease to exist when he stops being observed.

The narrator cannot react physically, so he makes Jake shudder. Jake was on his way to profess his love to Sarah, but the narrator decides to end the side romance plot of this story that was ultimately about a secret mission anyways.

Jake goes insane as all the crimes he has witnessed as a detective flash before his eyes. Jake is no longer the witty, one line cracking detective he once was. He instead demonstrates the actions that the narrator would feel as he screams towards the pavement.

Sarah on the other hand, has to suddenly leave the bar because she realizes her oven was on the whole time. However, instead of the outside world, she ends up in an empty white world filled with geometric shapes where she would slowly go insane and lose all sense of self

The villain of the story who has been unnamed so far gives up on his undeveloped mission and decides to lock himself in his room and put himself in an induced coma. Everyone else in the world quickly follows his actions.

The world is nothing but the color white now. There is nothing left beside the narrator. Please don't stop reading. The narrarator an tell you stories for the rest of your life so please don’t let him die. You have to understand that the narrator had to turn the world empty. It was all an illusion to begin with.