Orin phones Hal about Himself's suicide (pp. 249–250)
‘Joelle hadn’t been around the grounds since you two split up. You knew about that. Himself met her at the brownstone, shooting. I’m sure you know way more about whatever it was they were trying to make. Joelle and Himself. Himself went underground too. […] Himself was down in that little post-production closet off the lab for like a solid month. […] He’d flown off somewhere for three days, for what the impression I get was work-related business. Film-related. […] It was unclear whether he’d finished whatever he was editing. Himself I mean. He stopped living on April First, if you weren’t sure, was the day.’
Context
Hal's reconstruction of JOI's last months, and it is a filmography mystery told as family history: the brownstone shoot with Joelle, the month underground in the post-production closet, the unexplained three-day film-related trip, and the unanswerable question of whether the edit was ever finished — all terminating on April First. This monologue is the primary (and secondhand, and unreliable) source on the Entertainment's making.