A Well-Preserved Woman…
- Campbell and Helga weep and hug their way up to Campbell's apartment.
- Keeley cries.
- Krapptauer feels proud of this moment.
- Kraft chomps his pipe and holds back tears.
- Campbell wants to know the deets.
- Jones is giddy to tell: it was a beautiful coincidence.
- Here's the lowdown.
- Step 1: Jones broadcasts to the world—errrr, to all those who subscribe to a hate-newspaper—that Campbell is alive.
- Step 2: A devoted reader writes to Jones saying that Helga has just turned up in West Berlin as a refugee.
- Step 3: Ta-da.
- Amidst this new info, Campbell asks Helga (in German): Why didn't you contact me?
- Helga (in English): I didn't know if you'd want to see me.
- Campbell: You're all I ever want to see.
- Sidebar: Okay, not going to lie, but we're experiencing major internal conflict about how much we love Campbell and Helga's love even while we're super grossed out by all the Nazi supporters all over the place. Life—and literature—is totes complicated, y'all.
- Helga tells her story. It's not pretty, involving rape, prison, labor camps, and a lot of abuse. She eventually got to Dresden and headed to West Berlin through East Berlin.
- Campbell asks how Helga got money for travel to the U.S.
- Jones: People who love you and your work paid for it. You're their hero.
- Gulp. It's a guilt-and-conflict-of-interests-palooza up in here.