How It All Goes Down
Partridge (Kiss)
- Reminder: this chapter is titled "Partridge (Kiss)." Last time we saw this exact title (in Pure), Sedge's head exploded and his mother was killed by the collateral damage.
- So what we're saying is, watch out.
- Partridge doesn't exactly trust Iralene, but he still takes the pill with him.
- She tells him that Ellery wants to use Partridge's body—that's right, Partridge's next procedure is meant to be a body transplant.
- As they're walking through the hospital ward, Partridge asks to see Dr. Weed. They refuse him.
- He also sees people scattering about; apparently, they are trying to decontaminate a girl who left the Dome. Lyda.
- This triggers his memory a bit, so he demands to see her. They refuse again.
- Then Partridge gets angry. And you wouldn't like him when he's angry. He begins to use his strength to overpower the doctors — flipping them over his back and whatnot.
- He enters Lyda's room and asks the doctor what happened. He tells Partridge that she's pregnant.
- More memories flood into his mind, especially the one about the snowflake he promised to make her for Christmas.
- So he takes his seven truths paper, bites the edges and folds it until it looks like a snowflake. He exits the room and gives it to Iralene, telling her to give it to Lyda.
- Iralene consents, and Partridge realizes how smart she might actually be… because she's been distracting the guards the whole time.
- Finally, Partridge enters his father's room. His father asks for forgiveness and for Partridge to love him.
- Yeah right. It's poison time.
- Partridge leans over and gives his dad a big old smooch, shooting the capsule to the back of his father's throat.