Day and John are brought in for questioning, and Day keeps replaying the moment when his mother was murdered in front of him. Day is tied up, and his injured leg is throbbing with pain. Commander Jameson enters the holding cell and taunts him, refusing to give any information about “that infected lot [Day] call[s] a family” (165). Commander Jameson leaves, and June enters, although it “takes [Day] a minute to recognize her” because she is no longer dirty but “clean and polished” (165) and dressed in her military regalia. June interrogates Day, dropping her soft demeanor and becoming an icy military official. She “strikes [him] hard across the face” (167) with her gun and threatens to hurt his brothers if he doesn’t cooperate.

Day begins to confess to a series of crimes over the years, most of which involve sabotaging the military, but when June brings up the death of Metias, Day admits that he threw a knife but insists that “there’s no way [his] knife throw could’ve caused anything more than a wounded shoulder” (169). June doesn’t believe him, and she accuses Day of being a member of the Patriots, a radical group of rebels seeking to bring down the Republic.