Miller returns to Philadelphia hoping for a fresh start. She quickly realizes, “I was angry to still be angry” (213). The sentencing is scheduled to take place on June 2. Alaleh has recommended a sentence of six out of a possible 14 years. Miller has eight weeks to compose a victim impact statement that she will read at the sentencing.

Miller continues performing with the comedy club. Her savings are running low. Within a month, Lucas will move to San Francisco, and Miller will return to live with her parents. In the final weeks before their move, Miller is overcome with emotion that she “had shut down to make it through” and now releases, “[her] body helpless against the anguish passing through in waves” (215). Miller is contacted by an old family friend named Michele Dauber, “a Stanford professor and activist who demanded Stanford do more to stop campus sexual assault” (215). Miller opens up to even more friends about the assault. They move into action to support her at the sentencing.

Miller delays writing her statement. She receives a phone call from a probation officer who asks for her input on the upcoming sentencing. Their conversation is brief but leaves Miller with “a lingering discomfort” (218).