Bruno Airmont previously visited Fiume on a scouting assignment from InChSyn. He bought a villa at an address with “no agreed-upon location” (270). The villa dates from a time when “Fiume had a reputation as a party town” (271); Daphne could imagine it as a place she could call home. In Fiume, Hicks meets Terike, who is hoping to intercept Ace before he finds himself in trouble. Ace is also in Fiume; he blames Bruno for his encounter with the Vladboys. He arrives at Bruno’s villa with no clear plan but meets Porfirio del Vasto, who arrived in Fiume in search of Glow and is now “looking for an excuse to get into a duel with somebody” (272). After being accused of jewel theft, Porfirio defends himself. Dr. Zoltán von Kiss, on the other side of the room, winks and smiles at the display of apportation. Kiss sits with Hicks as Ace approaches them to chat about baseball, which Kiss believes involves apports. Kiss has been sent to Fiume by Praediger to search for a mysterious smuggling submarine. Onboard, he says, is Hicks’s old associate Stuffy Keegan, who seems “anxious to confer” (274) with Hicks. Behind them, Bruno chases after the cocaine-addled Praediger and comes face-to-face with Ace. He declines Bruno’s offer of reemployment, deciding he would rather be “freewheeling solo” (276) for a while. Later, Hop offers Ace a job, helping with his network for the extraction of Jewish people. He invites Zdeněk to join them as well. Ace, a former strikebreaker who worked for Bruno Airmont, has the “a chance to reform” (277).

At the old Whitehead factory in Fiume, said to be “haunted by the ghosts of submarines long dismantled” (278), Hicks reunites with Stuffy. Hicks is introduced to Ernst Hauffnitz, the skipper of the U-13, and a veteran of World War I. Hauffnitz’s doubts began “early in the War” (279), when 343 civilians were killed by U-boat captain Max Valentiner in direct violation of Chancellery orders to spare passengers and rescue survivors. Hauffnitz spent the rest of the war dodging British ships and, to his knowledge, incurred no casualties. In 1921, ordered to deliver his submarine to be broken up, Hauffnitz went rogue. He and his crew took the submarine away, and he speaks of how he has “developed a strange rapport with the boat […] a sort of psychical connectedness” (280). They embarked on a career of non-belligerence, taking up smuggling.

Handing Daphne details for a Swiss bank account, Bruno announces that the deposit box contains “enough on the secret history of the InChSyn […] to send the whole business up in one giant fondoozical cataclysm” (281). With this, Daphne can become the new Al Capone of cheese. Their ship is intercepted by U-13 and Hauffnitz takes Bruno aboard, securing him in a “not uncomfortable cabin” (282). Stuffy speaks to Bruno, who brings news that the cheese syndicate are in search of the money that Bruno stole from them. The crew of the U-13 is not working for the syndicate, Stuffy says, because their “racket happens to be exile” (283). Bruno has the chance to become the Al Capone of cheese in exile. At the same time, he warns Bruno about what is happening in the United States, where “revolution has broken out” (283). A strike over the price of milk has spread from Wisconsin, with milk shipments hijacked and destroyed, ambushes, and gunfights. There have been civilian and military casualties. Bruno envisions the end of the cheese industry, now that “the Red Hour has struck at last” (284). There has been a coup, Stuffy says, and gangs of millionaires have deposed Roosevelt and placed General MacArthur in charge of the country.

In a Fiume café, Hicks runs into Dippy Chazz Foditto, who has been deported from the United States to help set up an anti-fascist training camp in Sicily because certain elements of the United States’s ruling class believe that this will be a “strategic factor in the next war” (285). He also brings the news that April is now married to Don Peppino, and she is expecting a child. As such, Dippy warns, Hicks should not return home, as the Mafia boss will view April’s old flame as a threat. Dippy warns that “it’s over for [Hicks] in M’Waukee” (288). During “the dawn hours of the first day of a post-American life” (288), Hicks dials home. He speaks to his mother. He cannot say much to her, as she warns that “they listen in” (289), but she tells Hicks to stay safe.

Aboard the U-13, Bruno is told that he is being taken to the United States, “but not exactly the one [he] left” (290). He sees what he believes to be the Statue of Liberty, but Stuffy warns that he should not be so sure. In exile, they are heading “toward a frontier as yet only suspected” (291). Back in Europe, Hicks is still in his own form of exile. After a small moment of panic, he begins to come to terms with his situation. Terike promises to help him learn Hungarian, teaching him the words for “kiss me” (291). When he says csókolj meg, she kisses him. Skeet Wheeler, still in the United States, writes a letter to Hicks. Skeet describes how he is dodging the police and bemoans the lack of hiding places compared to old times. In a bid for freedom, he plans to head west with his girlfriend, Zinnia. He has heard that there is plenty of work out in California. Lew Basnight has offered to give him the money for the trip and has warned of “forks in the road” (292) and plenty of potential mistakes in the promises made by California. Skeet is optimistic, though slightly confused by Lew’s claim that “innocent and not guilty ain’t always the same” (293). Skeet is going to put his days as a street kid behind him and grow up. For the time being, however, he and Zinnia have “ a couple of sunsets to chase” (293).