Book 1, Chapter 11 Summary

It is now Christmas Eve and Mr. Finch is making his report directly to Mr. Susan. Mr. Finch covers the facts that V injected Dr. Delia with a poison, and that Mr. Almond showed up and faced V. However, Almond never loaded the gun. Plus, since they made the connection with the victims and Larkhill, Almond was going to warn Delia, because she was the last person alive on the list. They were too late.

Finch tells Mr. Susan about the diary and indicates that although he does not know who V is, he knows what he is. He then begins to read aloud excerpts of it. In it, Dr. Surridge documents her arrival at Larkhill, and her hormone experiments that she plans to administer to the inmates at the camp. By her own account, this does not sound like a...