With the Philadelphia Phoenix motionless and humming, a brief stillness ends when Reggie Davis limps out of the observation car. Anna follows, hampered by pain, glass in her feet, and lost train-legs now that the cars are stationary. She tracks Reggie through first class into the lounge and dining areas, checking hiding spots after recalling her earlier ambush by Herb Pulaski.

Anna spots Reggie in the galley catching his breath, but he slips ahead into the club car. When Anna bursts in, Reggie ambushes her from the wall, wrenching her arm and slamming her against the counter in a struggle for the gun. Anna tries to knee Reggie like she did to Herb; he evades and manages to seize the gun.

Anna kicks again, driving Reggie back against a window. As Reggie aims the gun at her, Anna scrambles for anything to use and finds only empty coffee cups. She pelts him; the first misses, the second hits his chest, and the third smashes into his face, crunching his nose and spraying blood. Reggie howls but keeps hold of the gun.

Seizing the opening, Anna sprints forward through the coach lounge, sleeper, and coach cars, pushing through pain while expecting Reggie to follow. She reaches the baggage car, realizing there is nowhere left to hide and that the only safety lies in the locomotive.

At the reinforced door, Anna pounds and begs Burt Chapman to open it as Reggie’s slow, confident footsteps approach, his shirt bleeding and his nose bent and broken. With her back to the door, she hears mechanisms move on the other side—a sigh, a twist, a creak—before the door opens behind her.

Relief turns to shock when, instead of engineer Burt Chapman, Kenneth Wentworth appears on the threshold. The chapter ends with the reveal that Wentworth has been on the train the entire night without Anna’s knowledge.