Fatty works on a supposedly fancy “Great Chadwick Six” and immediately spots it is cobbled together with Ford parts. While Big Soap watches, Fatty recruits Big Soap for a nighttime plumbing job on Chicken Hill: opening an old manhole cover, adjusting a Y valve, and reconnecting a line to the city reservoir feed near Hayes and Franklin, across from the Clover Dairy. Fatty claims it is not truly illegal but must be done at night, offers Big Soap thirty-five dollars, and plans to bring Rusty in case cement repairs are needed.

Big Soap worries about the nearby dairy and its watchman, but Fatty insists Memorial Day weekend festivities will distract everyone. Their talk is interrupted by Paper, who chastises Fatty for missing an errand: Nate needs Fatty’s help immediately to move drums and parade supplies to Antes House before Nate leaves that night. Fatty admits another job is lined up, but Paper presses him to cooperate.

At Moshe’s theater, Addie explains that the Historical Society wants Moshe’s stored parade equipment delivered, though the city truck never arrived. Nate agrees to deliver it anyway so he can still meet the Egg Man at Hemlock Row that night, but Addie grows anxious because the larger plan to rescue Dodo remains unclear to her and she fears Nate will put himself in danger at Pennhurst. Nate insists he is only meeting the Egg Man to pay him and will be back by midnight, not going inside the institution.

Fatty arrives with an improvised mule cart and Big Soap to haul the massive load in one trip. As they ride toward Antes House, Fatty privately asks Nate to move the Hemlock Row meeting earlier because Fatty’s other job will run late; Nate agrees as long as he is back by morning. Fatty then confesses he received a note through his sister, Bernice, with cash to reroute the water pipe by the public faucet well, and that a torn second page mentioned union Jewish railroad men and the Pennhurst train.

Nate deduces that Isaac—Moshe’s wealthy cousin from Philadelphia—is orchestrating the effort and focuses on the extra four hundred dollars taped to the “railroad men” page. Nate tells Fatty the four hundred is meant for Dodo and orders Fatty to fetch it and deliver it to Addie at the theater immediately. Nate unloads the parade supplies at Antes House, takes responsibility for the “service” being paid for, says Nate will get to Hemlock Row on his own, and promises to return Fatty’s mule and wagon afterward; Fatty complies despite resenting the loss of the money.