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The 5th Wave Chapter 61 Summary

  • Zombie is having a hard time coping with this new information. The aliens tricked him and the other soldiers.
  • Ringer takes charge. Their next move needs to be to kill whoever was shooting at them.
  • First, she removes his implant.
  • Zombie has another terrible realization: Camp Haven wasn't a refuge. It was a death camp.
  • They're off to kill the shooter. Make that disarm the soldier. Zombie doesn't want to kill him. (Why?)
  • They go into the room where the shooter is. Ringer shoots the sniper. Surprise! It's Reznik.
  • He tries to punch at something in his hand, but Ringer shoots and kills him.
  • Ringer checks out the handheld device. She thinks that Reznik was going to kill them with it as a last resort, since they had found him out. That had not been his plan all along, however.
  • They look at the device. They can see all of their squad on it. Good thing they cut out their trackers, then.
  • There are also flashing switches which Ringer thinks are "kill switches." Each one corresponds to a soldier.
  • Ringer decides that Reznik shot at them to urge them into battle before. It was their first time out, so he knew they might need special incentive.
  • Zombie decides they should return to the squad and cut out the other implants.
  • To return, they'll have to re-insert their implants. Otherwise, they'll glow green in their squad mates' eyepieces.