Returning to Los Angeles from San Francisco with his wife, one of their two checked suitcases went missing; after five days the airline declared it lost, so Neville imagined lifting the bag and feeling the relief of possession, and on the sixth day an anonymous letter signed "Sonny the bandit" arrived with locker key #164, the police recovered the ransacked bag in San Francisco and flew it back, and the airline gave him and his wife round-trip tickets.