Thomas awakens, feeling elated when he realizes he is on cold ground. His head no longer throbs and his body no longer aches. He then remembers what has happened to him and his elation quickly drains away. Noticing that he is still in the same small room, he begins banging on the door for help. As Thomas pounds on the door, he thinks about WICKED and Teresa, about everything that is being done to him and his friends. He thinks also about how much he trusted Teresa, and finds that he does not like himself much anymore for working with WICKED at one point in time.

The door opens and Teresa is standing on the other side. She is crying, and hugs Thomas, telling him how sorry she is. She says that WICKED would have killed him if she did not go along with the plan to kill him. Thomas, however, cannot hug Teresa back. All he can think of is the sign on the dorm room door that called her a betrayer. Thinking on that, Thomas realizes that “he couldn’t trust her anymore, and his heart told him he couldn’t forgive her” (303).