Joelle's interview about the Entertainment — "If it got made and nobody’s…"

The artifact's final disposition, guessed by the one who'd know: the Master cartridge is in the grave, "in there with him," buried with JOI in the annulation-zone — which, as Joelle notes with grim relish, means "where he's buried is itself buried, now," lost in the toxic no-territory the map won't own. The deadliest object in the world has been interred with its maker in a zone that doesn't officially exist, so that retrieving it requires a Continental-Emergency exhumation of exactly the kind Gately dreams (175). The Entertainment ends as a thing consigned to the earth with the dead entertainer, its lethal perfection sealed underground; the theme's weapon is also, finally, a corpse's grave-good, and the joke JOI didn't live to appreciate is that his hiding place hid itself.