Chapter 6 Summary

It is 1984 and Frenesi Gates is sitting in the kitchen of her new apartment drinking a cup of coffee. It is the latest in a long string of apartments she and her husband, Flash, have moved into over the years and each time she moves her thoughts return to Prairie, who she last saw as a baby.

Frenesi and Flash are both government informers in the witness protection program. They met while they were inmates at a "reeducation camp" run by Brock Vond and have spent the years since being moved from place to place and receiving regular checks from the federal government. They have a son, named Justin.

As Frenesi sits watching television, a U.S. Marshall comes to the door with the regular check, which is an unusual occurrence. Soon afterward, Flash calls from the government office where he works and...