Bowen wakes Fo with a surprise: he collected enough water in the hotel tub for a shallow bath, and he found a fresh travel toothpaste and brush for her. She relishes getting clean and finds clothes including a sundress in the abandoned luggage in the room. Bowen requests that she change again, implying that he cannot help being distracted by her appearance. She finds jeans and a large T-shirt instead. Bowen sleeps but he has nightmares again; he screams Fo’s name often. Finally, Fo wakes him. Bowen says the nightmare was even worse than the ones he had about his mother dying. He determines that he will not take Fo to the lab after all, but that they will run away together to Wyoming. He makes Fo promise to keep the gun with her and to shoot herself if she is caught. Fo agrees. He gives her his watch and tells her he must go to gather another gun and supplies. He tells her to turn herself in to the north gate of the wall if he is not back by 7 a.m. the next morning. They kiss, and Bowen tells Fo she has his heart. Fo tells Bowen she loves him.

With Bowen gone, Fo collects potentially useful items from the room and abandoned luggage. An old magazine with headlines about the terrible effects of the vaccine trigger another flashback. Fo recalls her mother coming home from a doctor’s visit and admitting that Jonah would be placed in a medically induced coma for his violent behavior. Fo becomes furious over the news; her mother reminds her that Jonah inadvertently killed their father the month before. When her mother reveals that Fo will be placed in a coma as well, Fo’s rage grows uncontrollably and she attacks her. Fo weeps at these memories.

Fo tries to control her anxiety and dark thoughts that Bowen will never return. At dawn, someone comes into the room; instead of Bowen, it is Arrin. Arrin takes Fo to another room in the hotel with a view of the wall and the land within it. Fo sees green fields and people going to work them. Then Arrin shows her far below in the street that Bowen “huddle[s] in a shallow doorway” (194) while many raiders hide nearby with weapons, ready to attack.

Arrin tells Fo that Bowen and Tommy, who is with him, took shelter in that doorway through the night, but that the raiders will not go away. Fo aims to shoot a raider, but Arrin tells her that if she shoots, she will reveal their location and they will be caught. Arrin wants to take Fo to the lab herself to collect the reward, and she says she can get to the wall through tunnels. Arrin insists it is pointless to try to help Bowen, as he is as good as dead already. Fo considers, then points, aims, and shoots at a raider close to Bowen. She shoots and hits two more men; Bowen and Tommy throw a grenade and run. Raiders rush toward the hotel. Arrin tells Fo they must leave.

Arrin and Fo wait in the stairwell as the sound of footsteps comes up the stairs. Fo aims the rifle and watches through the scope, shooting as soon as a man’s form fills her view. She is shocked to see that the man is Bowen; she shot him in the stomach. Tommy is with him. Barely able to speak, Bowen sends Fo for coagulant. She runs to the room; there, she sees a young boy eating their Spam. Fo gives him cans of peaches and tells him to hide from “bad men coming” (201). She returns to Bowen with the coagulant and uses it all on his wound. Bowen screams and seems about to die, but he then directs Arrin and Fo to collect the makings for an IV with a treatment for blood loss from the first aid kit in his bag. He starts the IV as they hear the raiders break in the bottom of the stairwell and start climbing up.

Tommy pulls Bowen up, saying they must find a place to “make a stand” (207). They find a room with a mattress and Tommy places Bowen on it. He gives Fo a handgun. There are no fire escapes and the group debates how to get out of the hotel. Tommy suggests calling in their position to the militia, who will save Bowen and take Fo to the lab. She immediately says to do it, and despite Bowen’s protests, Tommy does. Then Arrin says she can take them into the tunnels if they can get down the elevator shaft. Tommy sends a grenade that releases a poison smoke called “Green Hell.” They breathe through masks to keep from inhaling the poison. Bowen tells Fo to go on without him. She refuses.

Tommy returns with a rope to keep Bowen on his back as he descends the elevator shaft ladder. They run past raiders weeping and immobilized by the Green Hell, then start down the shaft. Fo climbs alone, Tommy and Arrin having climbed before her much more quickly. Arrin says again that she can get them inside the wall, and says Fo is so badly wanted because she is the first child to wake from a coma. And when she woke, she wasn’t crazy anymore” (220). Bowen suggests that if they can get inside the wall, perhaps Fo’s sister Lissa will hide them, as the lab will likely have to kill Fo to learn how and why she is no longer showing signs of being a beast. Arrin laughs suspiciously, but Fo feels they have no choice but to follow her.

They follow Arrin through the pitch-black tunnels, on and on; at one point, they stop to give Bowen an energy tablet, prompting Arrin to complain. They start up again, but Fo senses that something is wrong; she calls for them to halt. When Tommy strikes a match, they see that they are surrounded by black-market men who intend to deliver Fo to the pits. Arrin planned to give Fo up to the men for honey, but the “Shadow Man” who deals with Arrin double crosses her: “The only payment you’ll be getting is the same fate as the Ten” (227). Arrin is shocked. The Shadow Man indicates that the governor is the one who wants Fo to go to the pits. The men use electromagnetic cuffs on Fo’s and Arrin’s arms and send them walking.