"Shopping List"

*(HER): The “shopping list” implies the existence of other tasks. The first task can be seen as fixing Case, or even just acquiring Case. The second task, we can assume, will soon be explained to us. Furthermore, the term “shopping list” seems to imply a longer set of tasks that involves searching. The idea of searching is associated with shopping – one peruses the aisles of a market to acquire items. This brings up another idea of acquisition. They’ve already acquired Case. Will this shopping list cause them to pick up more people? Is it a person, necessarily, that they will be acquiring next? The next question Molly asks is “You ever work with the dead?” It cannot be expected that the reader associates the future with the undead – and the reader would be hard pressed to assume that minds could be saved onto a ROM in the reality constructed by Gibson. This notion of working with the dead is clearly meant to force the reader to ask questions – how is that possible? Is she talking about physically working with corpses? Is she using ‘dead’ in a different context than expected? Some of these are nonsensical, but all are natural reactions to her partially revealing questions.
**(PRO): Molly has “seen” the shopping list and “saw” Case’s profile. She’s actually talking to him.