Chapter XXXVI

As Tris flees, she shoots at the guards who follow her and then only one is chasing. She realizes this is Will and as he points his gun at her, she is forced to fire back, killing him. It's sad that all of these characters have to die. But, that develops a question. Which characters will replace them? Tris makes it to where her father and brother are, using the code to knock. Caleb brings her inside where Tris sees many familiar faces and they tend to her wounds. I wonder how long Tris had to endure that bullet wound? Tris discovers Caleb left initiation into Erudite when he found out what was happening. This was a smart move or Caleb could have been in the middle of a war. After her father removes the bullet from her shoulder, Tris tells them what happened to her mother and Tris realizes true bravery:

“It isn’t just brave that she dies for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option.”

Tris realizes it is her job now to save the others because her mother told her to save them. Marcus appears and suggests the group leave and go to Amity. Even if Amity was injected with the sleepwalker serum, would they still go to war? Or would the truth serum conflict with the chemicals in the liquid? He asks Tris if she knows the Dauntless strategy which Tris explains it is not Dauntless but Erudite who control the fighting and the sleepwalking Dauntless. As the group takes this in, Tris realizes they need to wake them up and take away Erudite’s army.  By finding the computers that control the simulations, they can destroy the programs.  Tris remembers Jeanine was talking on the phone with someone about not leaving something undefended and then sending Tobias to the control room.  She knows the program must be at Dauntless headquarters and they need to go there.