How It All Goes Down
- Lena has a dream about falling off a cliff into her dead, bloated, drowned mother's arms. She calls it the Coldness. We would call it traumatized for life.
- She stumbles downstairs to breakfast and watches a news report about that zany prank that occurred at her evaluation. See, the news doesn't mention the Invalids because no one is supposed to know that they exist.
- The good news is that Lena gets a redo of her evaluation.
- After school, Lena and Hana go for their daily gossip and jog session.
- Hana deviates from their usual route when she goes into an area that's closed off by a security fence, but has been carelessly left open.
- Inside the Authorized Personnel Only area, they run into a male guard… And it's the boy who winked at Lena at her evaluation.
- His name is Alex. Lena says, "I saw you" (5.100). But he denies it.
- Hana wants a tour of all of this exciting behind-the-scenes stuff, but Alex says, "There's nothing to see. Unless you're a fan of industrial waste" (5.131). No thanks, we've had enough of Paris Hilton's music career.
- Instead, Alex takes the girls to see a beautiful view of the coast.
- While they're captivated with the view, Alex whispers one word into Lena's ear: "Gray" (5.139). Swoon, Part Two.
- He makes a big point of saying that the view is even prettier at sunset, which is at 8:30PM.
- No, he isn't a local news weatherman in training. Lena thinks he's asking her to meet him there that night. We would swoon again, but we haven't recovered from the last one just yet.