Fackelmann, Sunshine, and the beach — "Gately tried to figure while he…"
Gately tried to figure while he still could. If they were going to eliminate his map with an O.D. they’d have used something cheap. And if the librarian was going to sew his eyes open. Gately was trying to think.
Context
Shot up against his will with Sunshine, Gately does dazed actuarial reasoning about whether the injection is his own murder — the map idiom's homicide register one last time, from inside the head of the man it might apply to.