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Tally tells everyone her secret that she was a spy. David gets upset and leaves. Tally says she will go to the city and become pretty so they can test the cure on her.

David and Tally surprise the specials and manage to rescue everyone, including Shay who was turned pretty. We learn that Az died, but we aren't told how. The New Smokies spread rumors among the uglies and more and more people show up to learn about the abuses of the city.

David and Tally plan on breaking into Specials HQ by jumping over the tall sensor with bungee jackets. They find uglies that help them by distracting the Specials. David is sad about the loss of the Smoke.

David and Tally trek back to the city and they worry about what might be happening to the Smokies. They get into the city and try to find a way into the Specials headquarters. They come up with a crazy idea.

Tally makes it out of the Smoke and away from the Specials by going in a cave. She manages to find David in that cave and together they try to find anyone left. They don't find anything except burned ruins, and they leave to go rescue everyone from the city.

Tally tries to outrun the Specials, but she gets caughts and penned up with the other Smokies. She tricks the Specials by pretending the hid the locket and steals a board. She is trying to find David and escape the Specials.

David's parents talk about how they found lesions in the pretties brains. This is why pretties are easily swayed.

Tally and Shay get in an argument when Shay realises that David likes Tally. David and Tally talk and she gets close to telling him the truth, but she doesn't. David takes her to met the founders of the Smoke, his parents, Az and Maddy.

David gives Tally a pair of gloves as a gift and they grow closer together. Shay is mad that David chooses Tally over her. Croy notices something is up with Tally's amount of food.

Tally has a day of hard work with the other Smokies. She talks to David and realises he has been in the Smoke is whole life. She is struggling pushing the pendent because she realises how many people call the Smoke home.