- The young soldiers find the 2nd Company, and Paul instantly irritates a soldier named Westhus by trying to set up in the bunk that he's called dibs on.
- The young soldiers complain that they're hungry, and Paul asks the veteran soldiers where they can find food.
- The lanky one, Tjaden, explains that they haven't eaten since yesterday's breakfast but a man named Katczinsky is out searching now.
- We cut to a soldier crawling through the rain. This is Stanislaus Katczinsky.
- He finds a train car unloading butchered pigs and manages to trick the men into giving him one.