- At one thirty in the afternoon Grant takes off early from school to take Miss Emma to go see Jefferson.
- Grant is still pretty mad that his aunt roped him into all of this and doesn't talk to Miss Emma the whole way there.
- At the courthouse a deputy named Paul searches the basket of food Miss Emma brings and makes Grant empty his pockets, and pats him down.
- Paul leads the two into the cellblock. Other prisoners ask them for money, and Grant gives them some coins. Miss Emma promises them the food that Jefferson doesn't eat.
- They find the guy lying on his bunk staring at the wall.
- He won't speak to his aunt at first. Finally he says that nothing matters, and asks her when they're going to do "it."
- She acts like she doesn't know what he's talking about. Grant avoids Jefferson's eyes.
- Jefferson asks Grant if he's the one who's going to jerk the switch, and Miss Emma asks what switch.
- Finally, the deputy comes back and takes them out. Jefferson won't say goodbye to them, and Miss Emma has a conniption fit.