Paul learns from one of Geri's colleagues that the police are preparing a tactical unit to capture Nirvana. He obtains a police scanner and, by monitoring police radio traffic, finds out when and where the arrest is going to take place. He drives to the location to kill him, but Nirvana, under the influence of PCP, slashes his arm and stabs a few officers while he tries to escape. Tried and found criminally insane, he is sent to a mental institution. Geri is writing a story about the case and capital punishment and takes Paul to the hospital to meet the doctor treating Nirvana. While there, Paul steals another doctor's identification card. Later, Paul uses it to enter the asylum and confronts Nirvana. Despite being stabbed repeatedly with a shiv, Paul manages to kill Nirvana by tricking him to punch the defibrillator, which in turn electrocuting him to death. Donald Kay, a sympathetic orderly at the hospital, recognizes Paul from the newspaper coverage of Carol's death, and gives him three minutes to escape before he rings the alarm.