Cort is near death due to the Poisoned Book and Sheemie arrives at Gilead and is refuse entry. Using his powers he slips past the guards who then belive he is a Not-Men putting the other guards on high alert and causing them to send a search party out for him. Cuthbert Allgood and Alain Johns visit Roland in prison and Steven, Robert Allgood and Christopher Johns have followed Marten as far as they can which ends in a dead end. They are ambushed by Slow Mutants and in the fight Robert is killed.