How It All Goes Down
Two Hundred and Twenty Kilometers East of Moscow, 13 July
- Now that the train is moving again, Leo and Raisa need to escape. Step one: remove the screws sealing the hole in the floor that serves as their toilet.
- Though it requires Raisa to rip a tooth out of a "dead man's jaw," they finally do it (4.48.13). Um, yeah…
- There's just one problem: the base of the train is surrounded by a net of deadly hooks meant to snag escaping prisoners. Leo thinks they can avoid this by tossing down the two dead bodies first, each using one as a shield between themselves and a world of pain.
- Raisa and her corpse buddy go first. She nails it, sliding under the body at the last moment as it gets "tangled up" in the mess of hooks (4.48.42).
- It's Leo's turn now, but he can't fit the second corpse through the hole. Yeah, well, there's no time to wait, so he leaps down anyway and uses the first corpse to squeeze by the hooks, though he gets cut on the arm in the process.