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Sheriff Peter Billings escorts Lukas upstairs to cleaning. Lukas thinks that he now knows why people are sent to cleaning, that “if he sneezed the wrong words, it would kill everyone he knew” (486).

Lukas is considering jumping off the staircase to kill himself when he and Peter overhear Bernard’s conversation with Juliette on Peter’s radio. Lukas decides not to jump, while Peter questions his task of taking Lukas to his death.

intercept Lukas outside the silo when he is sent to cleaning. Although she figures it unlikely that they would survive being outside, she wants the others from Silo 18 to see her on the camera. The knowledge that she has survived, she believes, will lead them to revolt against IT and stop the fighting and mass executions.

She promises Solo she will come back for him and the children, though neither of them believe this. Solo tries to hide his tears from her. Juliette prepares to go outside, believing she will probably die. Solo asks her again to call him by his real name, Jimmy, saying: “I’m not going to be alone anymore” (492).