In the bunkroom, Lukas studies a schematic of the fifty silos while listening to the battle in Mechanical through the radio and waiting for a call from Juliette. He longs for a stop to the violence, thinking that it threatens to kill them all.

Feeling restless, he picks up the manual Juliette wrote for the generator. On it, she finds a poem she wrote to someone named George. Lukas feels a surge of jealousy. Using his IT credentials, he starts to research this George. From the words in the poem, he realizes George must be dead, and finds the likely man in the database—he was never married and would have been 38. Although he feels guilty about abusing his IT privileges, Lukas views this research as something to distract him from the violence in Mechanical and the tedium of the bunkroom and begins investigating George. 

Juliette and Solo, nervous about encountering Solo’s assailant again, struggle to climb up the stairs. She is freezing and hungry, and he is injured and thirsty. They aim for the deputy station first, and then for the lower farm. They take a break on a landing, and Solo tells her to leave him behind before she convinces him to go on.