The Bullet That Missed

Connie thinks about going on vacation when she gets out of prison and how hard prison would be without all the VIP perks she gets. As she looks in Heather’s cell for what she was writing, Connie thinks about her past and the sessions with Ibrahim. In one of the hollow legs of the bed frame, she finds Heather’s writings, which seem to be poetry. She thinks Ibrahim will be able to understand it.

After Elizabeth shoots the gun in the bathroom, she tells Joyce to destroy her SIM card. Then, Elizabeth reveals that she was being spied on through the phone and they are faking Viktor’s death. Bogdan comes with a large bag, Viktor tells the concierge—who works for him—that he is dead (and will be “a couple of weeks or so” [152]), takes some sleeping pills, and climbs in the bag. Once they have driven far enough away with the bag in the trunk, they let Viktor out. He ends up staying in Joyce’s spare bedroom. Joyce wonders what it means about Elizabeth, and about her, that she had completely believed Elizabeth had killed Viktor “just to save her skin” (153).