In a flashback, Juliette takes a trip to the 100th floor bazaar with her parents, where they stop into see a performance of “The Tragic Historye of Romeus and Juliette.” Her parents saw the play when they were dating and named Juliette after it. Juliette is more amazed by the opening act of jugglers than by the play, during which she falls asleep. Afterwards, her parents take her to meet the main actress and ask her for an autograph. She gives Juliette an autographed copy of the script, a precious gift as paper is valuable in the silo. “Remembering her manners” (214), Juliette thanks the actress and apologizes for falling asleep during the play. 

Lukas sits at the foot of the bed in his room, grieving for Juliette. He decides to go to work to distract himself. Lukas works for Bernard in IT maintaining the servers. He feels unmotivated and can barely get dressed.

On the silo stairs, he contemplates committing suicide by throwing himself off a landing. Lukas sees a porter running past and can tell from the expression on his face that something newsworthy regarding the cleaning has happened.