Chapter Forty, By a Stretch of the Imagination Summary

Berlin is at the observation tower thinking about the chase to Paris. He is still trying to decide what happened and what did not. He concludes that their trip could not have finished by them getting caught by customs agents so they did not. The remaining squad members, Berlin, Eddie, Doc Peret, Oscar Johnson, the Lieutenant and Sarkin Aung Wan, stay in Athens for a few days. They wait for Stink Harris to show up but then decide to move on in their chase of Cacciato. The squad boards a bus to Zagreb and spend the night. The next morning they are picked up by a California girl in a VW van. She lectures them all on doom, then says she admires them for walking away from the evil...