which allowed them to get past inspection. As Thorne leaves, men show up at the apartment and kill him, Quarrey, and his wife. July Jacob is confronted by his wife, Maud, who calls him a murderer for the poisonings of Noshri and Honduras. He angrily retreats to his study, where he eats a candy bar confiscated from one of his chronically-ill children. He has an allergic reaction, falls out the window, and dies. Trainites begin to resort to terrorism. They bomb gas stations, blow up a new highway interchange in Alabama, sabotage a lumber mill in Georgia, and murder loggers who are trying to cut down California's remaining redwood trees. Hugh, Carl, and the Austin Train impersonator they call Ossie plot to kidnap Hector Bamberley, who is the son of Roland Bamberley and the nephew of Jacob. Roland has become the West Coast distributor for Mitsuyama water filters, and the company wants to extort him into giving them away for free. Peg wakes up in a hospital and is questioned by a doctor, who is coerced by a federal agent, about her ties to Austin Train. August The Mitsuyama water filters are discovered to be faulty and to clog up constantly with bacteria. Alan Prosser faces ruin with having to replace them. In Colorado, there is a meeting of wat members from all over the country. They are discussing a report on Puritan Foods when suddenly, a low flying aircraft firebombs the compound and kills many. Hugh and Carl's friend Kitty, who owns the apartment in which they are living and keeping Hector, has sex with him. Peg convinces Austin, who is now working as a garbageman, to go public. He agrees after she says that she can get him on the Petronella Page show. Page wants to "crucify" him, but she is won over to his cause. After a major at a nuclear missile base in North Dakota suddenly goes crazy and almost murders his two kids, the government becomes convinced that the United States is under attack. Martial law begins to spread. September Hugh, Carl, and Ossie are worried about Hector's health and have given up hope that Roland will pay the ransom, let him go. Hector is ridden with all of the diseases that are now common in urban slums, much to the disbelief of his wealthy father. Hector claims that he was kidnapped by Austin Train,