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The Passengers
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Part 2, Chapters 42-56Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of suicidal ideation, death by suicide, and child sexual abuse.
Part 2, Chapter 42 Summary
Continuing hashtag trends about the attack precede the chapter content.
The Hacker instructs the jury to choose one Passenger to save. Libby expects the Hacker to reveal a final secret about Jude, but she’s relieved when he doesn’t. Matthew organizes the group to deliberate, though Jack sits apart. Fiona proposes that they discuss each Passenger individually, beginning with Claire.
Muriel expresses her support for saving Claire for the sake of her unborn child. When Jack questions her, Muriel reveals that, like Claire, she’s pregnant. After a brief debate, Muriel casts the only vote to save Claire. The jurors accept that they may never know the full truth about the Passengers.
Part 2, Chapter 43 Summary: “Claire Arden”
Preceding the chapter content, a quiz site poses the question “Which Passenger are you?” and prompts users to answer multiple-choice questions to find out which trapped Passenger they would be.
In her car, Claire listens to the jury. Grieving and exhausted, she believes that her chance of survival is gone. A flashback reveals that six months earlier, doctors diagnosed her husband, Ben, with an inoperable brain aneurysm. To secure a larger life insurance payout, Ben asked her to move his body to his office if he died at home.
Four weeks later, Claire found Ben dead.
