Chapter XXV Secret Agent Number One Summary and Analysis

Page discovers a Mexican undercover officer watching the Pranksters. Babbs and Page confront the officer who tells a ridiculous story about being with Mexican Naval Intelligence. Cassady flips his sledge hammer, a habit he has developed, a short distance away. He suddenly pitches the sledge at a brick near to the undercover officer, and the officer leaves quickly.

Babbs spots the officer the next day walking on the beach and invites him to a Polynesian restaurant. Kesey is ready to run for it and drives to a bluff overlooking the ocean where he smokes marijuana with a Prankster named Stone. Kesey decides that running for it is of no use, but pulling the undercover officer into the Prankster movie might work. He draws a parallel with the movie Casablanca and how...