Fackelmann's scam and the wraith's return — "He dreams he’s with a very…"
He dreams he’s with a very sad kid and they’re in a graveyard digging some dead guy’s head up and it’s really important, like Continental-Emergency important […] and Joelle van D. appears with wings and no underwear and asks if they knew him, the dead guy with the head, and Gately starts talking about knowing him even though deep down he feels panic because he’s got no idea who they’re talking about, while the sad kid holds something terrible up by the hair and makes the face of somebody shouting in panic: Too Late.
Context
The grave-dream — third leg of the novel's most famous triangle, corroborating Hal's Year-of-Glad memory of digging up his father's head with Gately (p. 17) and Joelle's annulation-zone bet (pp. 940-941). For this theme the point is the dream's planted quality: Gately has never met JOI alive, yet dreams the dead father's own endgame — wraith-interface knowledge, the same pattern as scene 164's dream-facts.