In prison, Ash is placed in a cell with Max Lobo, a journalist who was in the same platoon as Griffin. Ash allows a group of prisoners to rape him so that he can be admitted to the medical ward, where he acquires a pill capsule. During a prison visitation, Ash slips a message to Eiji hidden inside the capsule by kissing him. The message instructs him to secure the unknown substance and contact Shorter Wong, a gang leader in Chinatown.