This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous quote: "green flames, what's your lexicon?" . It's a quote from Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice, in which the hero asks, "What's the meaning of green flames?" In other words, the hero wants to know what the word "flame" means. He asks the commander to look at the flames in the man's hand and tell him that the man is responsible for starting the fire. The commander wants to arrest the man immediately, but the man says that he's just teasing the man