- Maddie is now living with the Thibauts as Katherina Habicht, Maman Thibaut's cousin's daughter from Alsace.
- She's staying in Etienne's old room and has begun using one of his childhood notebooks to write in.
- One day, as she and Amélie and Mitraillette are out on their bicycles looking for possible landing sites, they run into Etienne.
- Mitraillette does a good job of lying to him, and he buys the story about a distant cousin.
- He and Amélie get into a fight, and because he's a jerk, Etienne starts telling his little sister what they do to prisoners who don't cooperate.
- Maddie doesn't understand any of this conversation until the Thibaut sisters relay it to her later, and then she's really upset because she knows if Julie isn't dead, she's a prisoner of the Gestapo, and it's Maddie's job to find her.