Reggie comforts Carmen as she cries and recalls comforting his fellow soldiers in Okinawa. Carmen has a black eye from the crash. She wants to bury the bodies, but Reggie doesn’t think that is feasible. He worries about their chances of survival. He wonders which way they can head and thinks about the violence in the Congo: the Simbas fighting for independence and the white Europeans who have exploited African labor for their mines. Moreover, the landscape is full of predators.

Reggie is attracted to men but has never been public about his relationships. He was involved with another veteran, Luke, who had been wounded during the war. Reggie was the one who found Luke after he died by suicide. He had hoped never to see another dead body after Okinawa.

Reggie finds what provisions he can in the Land Rover and learns that their kidnappers have no IDs. He thinks Felix’s expression is one of terror. Reggie hurt his knee, and as they walk away, he is limping, just like the hyenas that are watching them.

Margie has been given food and was allowed to relieve herself but is now again tied in her hut. She worries that one of her cuts will become infected. A new man arrives and enters her tent with a flashlight. He is blond, blue-eyed, and good-looking but for a broken nose. He asks about her welfare and that of the child, and he admits that this is a kidnapping. Margie recalls waking in her tent that morning and watching wildebeest grazing. When Billy woke, they talked about enjoying the safari. Margie wondered if Billy ever felt diminished by the fame of his older sister, though he never appeared to.

The captor continues to converse with Margie, asking why Katie changed her name from Stepanov to Barstow. He tells her not to be scared—that his men only killed the rangers and Juma because they thought the other men were going to shoot. Margie asks if they have just kidnapped her friends for the money, and he retorts, “You’re American. For Americans, it’s always about the money. It’s only about the money” (152). She asks for something for her cuts. When he leaves, Margie begins to experience cramps and bleeding.

The opening excerpt from Movie Star Confidential notes that Terrance Dutton was seen having an intimate dinner with actress Dorothy Dandridge.

Terrance considers whether he can disarm the guard escorting him to relieve himself. He heard a truck leaving with Margie. He recalls Charlie saying, “[W]hen you had your one shot in the Serengeti, you damn well better take it” (156).

Terrance recalls meeting Katie at the airport in Paris. He noticed that the French seemed to care less about him being Black, though he did recall France’s relations with Algeria. As Katie greeted him, Terrance thought that, while audiences might now see a white woman kissing a Black man as salacious, the same action would have gotten his grandfather killed. Terrance talked with Peter Merrick and was taken aback when Peter described Patton as a “great white hunter” (159). Terrance noted that there are no great Black hunters, as “the colonials (Peter’s word) had had their boots on the necks of the native Blacks for centuries” (160). Peter conjectured that Patton feels diminished leading photo safaris rather than hunting expeditions. Peter also said that Patton wouldn’t mistake Terrance for a porter, and Terrance decided not to challenge him for this insult. He sensed that Peter viewed David with disdain for depending on Katie for money; among other things, Peter noted that David’s gallery was operating at a loss. Peter wondered what would happen down the road, saying that no man wants to be a failure in his wife’s eyes.

In the present, Terrance throws himself onto the guard and gets his gun. He hears another guard behind him.

The Hollywood Reporter notes the painting in David’s gallery by the Russian defector and wonders if she could be a spy.

David has been tied in a prone position. He thinks of his father and wonders if Katie is okay. David recalls that while he and Katie were engaged, he felt jealous that she was spending time with the British actor Michael Caine. When he first started dating Katie, he slept with Nina Procenko, the Russian defector who let him sell one of her paintings, and he was glad Katie never found out. When a waitress at a diner flirted with him, David told himself that he shouldn’t sleep with her, but he did. Later, he was blackmailed with pictures of their liaison.

Now, David hears a gunshot and realizes that they all might die here.

Reggie helps Carmen climb into the lower branch of a dead baobab tree but is too injured to climb up with her. Reggie teases Carmen about the animal facts she has learned. Carmen feels grief when she thinks of Felix; though she still compares herself to Margot Macomber of the Hemingway story, she loved Felix. She recalls a photo shoot she did with Shirley MacLaine to advertise their movie. Carmen had learned to be careful of where she employed her sassiness and made an effort to soothe the ego of the director of the shoot. She tries not to fall asleep in the tree and sees a shooting star, which looks to her like the answer to a prayer. She whispers to Reggie, but he doesn’t answer, and she is afraid that she is alone.