Part II: Section 41 Summary

The room feels too small to Lester; he feels a post-adrenaline physical need to move. He thinks he should take Kathy home...but where is "home"? She has no home, he thinks, because of this Colonel, who keeps glancing over at his wife and son, then over at him and the gun at the back of his waistband. A small part of him wants to apologize profusely for breaking and entering, to say he'd be back in the morning for Kathy, to take her to wherever home might be. But he cannot imagine leaving her there, cannot imagine the series of decisions she had made that led to the present situation. He also knows that now the Colonel has new charges on him (brandishing a weapon, along with breaking and entering). He wonders whether the entire mystery could be...