Billy wakes up in the POW camp. He feels an "animal magnetism" (136) coming from his coat. He feels something in the pockets, but he does not check them.
The next morning, the Brits are building a new latrine and a new theater to replace the ones that the Americans are using. Some of the Brits walk through the hospital. The officer who broke Lazzaro's arm asks Lazzaro how he is. Lazzaro tells the Brit that he will have him killed after the war. The Brit is unimpressed. Then Lazzaro tells Billy that he is going to have all of his enemies killed after the war, including Billy, who killed his friend Roland Weary.
Billy knows that he dies in 1976. He is leaving a lecture he gave at a packed baseball stadium in Chicago......
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