Characters: Lizbeth Locke, Gunnery Sergeant Matteo Silva, Sergeant Charlotte Graves, Lance Corporal Arno Hendricks, Lance Corporal Gabriel Novak
- Liz is still running away when the Marines show up
- They start providing supressing fire
- They help Liz get to the docking bay
- Once in the docking bay, the Sooni have clearly decided not to persue
- The Marines move their equipment onto her ship.
- They ask Liz to leave, but stay close, so they can give the Sooni a surprise.
- The marines set off explosives they've setup across the base.
- They've spent days getting ready for this, and then, as the cherry on top, they blow up their shuttle.
- Everyone on the base is trapped inside.
- The marines relax with Liz
- They explain to Liz how they survived, but say it wasn't much of a story.
- Liz fills them in on what's happened since, with the whole governments falling thing, etc.
- The Marines show Liz what they got their hands on
- It's a Sooni data pad.
- Liz can operate it, but not use it.
Characters: Jonathan Simon, Julia, Jack, Alfred Vandenberg
- Simon has captured an interviewer
- The interviewer has no idea what's going on, but Simon informs him that he's going to bear whitness to the destruction of a Terran Colony
- The interviewer is afraid Simon is going to end the colony, but Simon explains he isn't.
- Julia and Jack are there, but they aren't saying anything.
- Simon gives his life story.
- Or, at least, some of it.