- Hip dreams about being in the military until Janie knocks on the door. He lets her in. Aw, she reveals she's been planning how to secretly follow him on his search.
- He tells her about finding a young, black, naked girl in her room.
- Janie panics, saying "he" has found them. Hip tries to tell her about his memories, but she orders him to flee with her. They hail a taxi.
- She tells the driver to just go anywhere, panicking too much to explain anything. She says there isn't enough time to explain. Hip insists there's enough time and details to her his progress in working with his memories. The progress impresses her enough to decide that maybe they do have enough time.
- The taxi lets them out. They climb up a foothill so they can see if anyone's coming. She insists they'll be found.
- Hip quickly digs into his memory. He recalls that six months after his obsession was born, the military discharged him. It then took him six months to find a county clerk's office; it took him a year to go from that office to an insane asylum, then three years to go from that asylum to the cave. Two years after the cave, he found the Alicia Kew house. That made seven years of struggle to find a certain something he'd once discovered.
- The novel restates a line from Part 1 Section 13 about how Hip found an answer and a disaster on an anti-aircraft range. He was a young, brilliant, but bored Lieutenant Hip Barrows.