A machine with 875 moving parts dispenses leaves into a paper fold that becomes the familiar tea bag. Bags from store shelves have their seams pressure tested for incidents of bag-bursts. Boiling water pours into glass beakers each containing a single tea bag. Peter records the results.
Research shows bag integrity to be a matter of distribution.
When tea is not evenly spread the seam is more like to breach. Today, Peter's brother, a newly hired clerk in a Minimart, is confronted by three teenagers, two boys and a girl. One of the boys shoots Peter's brother dead without uttering a word. The teens flee with two cartons of cigarettes. Peter is left at the bottom of his senses looking for a seam.