Uttley’s operation is televised. The doctors successfully transfer Mami’s “healthy human ticker” (168) into Uttley’s body. The heart begins working once the transplant is done, leading the doctors to congratulate each other.

Meanwhile, Mi-Jeanne as the duppy is leading Tony and Ti-Jeanne across town in search of Rudy. When they see Rudy emerge from his car with Crack Monkey, Ti-Jeanne suddenly becomes scared and tries to hide. Unfortunately, Rudy and Crack Monkey spot her first and start shooting into the crowd. The duppy, knowing that Ti-Jeanne is trying to run away, begins to attack again. Crack Monkey’s bullet hits Tony’s shoulder, causing him to stumble and rely on Ti-Jeanne’s help to push through the crowd. They run down the subway steps to escape through the tunnels. Rudy and Crack Monkey catch up to them with Mi-Jeanne the duppy lighting the way.

Just as Rudy and Crack Monkey are about to close in on Ti-Jeanne and Tony, a chorus of children’s voices yelling belligerently startle everyone. A band of children start attacking Rudy and Crack Monkey, causing them to flee with the duppy. When the children come near, Ti-Jeanne realizes that they are the children that Mami helped at her house. There are only a few of them, but they have manufactured a sound device that amplifies the children’s voices so that it appears that there are more of them. They also have a light projection to make it seem that way as well. The children reveal that they decided to help as a way to repay Mami’s kindness and to take revenge on Rudy, who has murdered many of them for his duppy bowl.

The children take Ti-Jeanne and Tony to a mall where they begin tending to the wounded. Ti-Jeanne tries to heal one of the injured children whose stomach was hit by a bullet. Unfortunately, she is unable to save him. This devastates her, leading her to have a vision where she encounters the Jab-Jab that once rescued her from her mother as the duppy. The Jab-Jab’s advice to use “cunning and instinct” (192) to defeat Rudy gives Ti-Jeanne the idea to ask the Prince of Cemetery once again for invisibility so she can enter Rudy’s lair.

Ti-Jeanne performs a ritual with the dead child’s blood and meager candy and cigarette offerings from the children. She draws Eshu’s head on the ground and calls on the Prince of Cemetery to come to her. She requests that he make her invisible again. She adds that since she and Rudy share the same blood, she would like for him to be invisible as well. This way, no one can see either of them, which would render their fight more equal. When a fog descends on them, Ti-Jeanne knows that the Prince of Cemetery has granted her request. She leaves Baby in the care of the children and enters the fog.