Chapter 25 - Chapter 34 Summary

Chapter 25 - Beauvoir heads outside the monastery, rushing after Francouer, charging into him, and knocking them both down. Francouer trains his weapon on Beauvoir. Beauvoir accuses Francoeur of leaking a video of the deaths of friends on a raid led by Gamache into a factory, having found it on Francoeur's laptop. It was a raid that nearly killed Gamache and Beauvoir, and now Beauvoir wanted to kill Francouer. Francouer insists he didn't leak the tape, but that Gamache did. Francoeur tells Beauvoir that Gamache left him to die, that he was only useful so long as he was alive. But Beauvoir is still angry, though doubts have begun to appear in his mind.

Chapter 26 - Gamache and Simon speak in the abbot's garden. Simon admits he thinks Mathieu was killed by Abbot Philippe. Simon explains the recording is when...