Juliette, shaking from cold and exhaustion, helps the injured Solo climb away from the flooded down deep. She wants to reach the deputy station, but Solo is dazed, bleeding, and barely able to move, and Juliette is hungry, wet, and afraid the unknown attacker is still somewhere below them. After several stops, Solo nearly gives up, but Juliette forces them onward toward the lower farms, hoping to find food, water, warmth, and a place they can secure for the night.

At the farm entrance, Solo props the door open while Juliette goes inside alone. In the dark, she turns the old rigged timer back on so the grow lights will warm up, then makes her way to the circulation pump, drinks, fills water for Solo, and grabs a few peas to quiet her hunger. As the lights slowly brighten, Juliette searches nearby offices and the dining hall for something dry to wear, thinking they might recover there before moving on.

Instead, Juliette begins to notice signs that someone else has been living in the farms. One grow station is not wild like the others but recently groomed, and powered wires lead toward a single closed door. When Juliette listens at it and tries the locked knob, the door suddenly opens, pulls her inside, and a figure attacks her with a wrench. Juliette is struck on the shoulder, lashes out with her knife, and only then sees that the attacker is not an adult but a frightened teenage boy.

Inside the room, Juliette finds several children huddled together on mattresses and blankets. The older girl reveals that their parents are dead, and Juliette recognizes Solo's wrench on the floor, which makes her understand that Solo's attacker was this boy, Rickson. She also realizes these children were born in Silo 17 long after its collapse, and that Rickson is the same age Solo still imagines himself to be when he talks about the past. The discovery changes Juliette's fear: the hidden threat is not a band of adult survivors, but a feral second generation trying to protect itself.

Juliette finds her stolen gear bag among the children's supplies, dries herself with her towel, and decides she will not leave them living in secrecy and squalor. She tries to take charge, telling Rickson, the younger boys, Elise, and the teenage mother with her unnamed baby to gather only what they need because she intends to bring them with her. As the children begin to move uncertainly, Juliette hears a strange sound from her bag, digs through it, and discovers her radio working again. Walker's voice comes through, urgently calling Juliette's name and reestablishing contact with Silo 18.