Part VI Summary

Sukhvinder is taken to the hospital. The police go to Terri Weedon's house to tell her that Robbie has drowned, Krystal is with them. When Terri finally comes out, Krystal runs in the house, grabs her mother's tin of drugs and locks herself in the upstairs bathroom. Though she has never shot up before she has seen her mother — and others — do it many times before. She shoots up enough, she knows, to kill herself. The police find her dead on the bathroom floor.

Howard is still in the hospital recovering from another surgery.

Part VI Analysis

Krystal is the most misunderstood character in the Casual Vacancy. Though her actions sometimes were crass and rude and inappropriate, some of her actions though tasteless, may have had good intentions. When Krystal drowns, few have anything good to say. Fats Wall...