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Dee takes BB’s flip-flops and finds another bag full of Frisbees in the hallway. Dee follows the twisty maze until a metal gate drops behind her and a flaming arrow thuds into the wall by her head. Robin’s Hood and Hannah Ball confront her. Robin holds a Zippo, ready to light more arrows. He sounds like a Renaissance Fair actor. Hannah Ball, dressed as a chef, stands on a platform above a giant tank of boiling water. Her wig is plaited in two braids. She imitates Julia Child. Dee realizes they think they are the first Painiacs she has encountered, and they do not know the Postman’s plans.

Robin and Hannah plan to “kebab” Dee on an arrow and sous-vide her in a plastic bag in the boiling water. Dee tosses a Frisbee at Robin but realizes it is not successfully armed. Dee arms several more Frisbees and throws the whole bag at Robin, blowing him up. The explosion knocks Hannah into the water. Hannah screams terribly as her skin and hair boil away. Dee briefly considers saving her, but Hannah sinks.

Dee takes Robin’s Zippo lighter from his severed hand. Dee smells candle wax in addition to Hannah’s boiling flesh and thinks she may face Gucci next. She wants to avenge Blair’s death, then worries she is becoming like a Painiac, even though she is killing truly bad people in self-defense.

Gucci is not next in the maze. Craft tables filled with art supplies line a narrow hallway. At the far end, an elderly lady wearing a painter’s respirator mask waits in a wheeled chair: DIYnona. Dee is wary of Ynona, who kills in creative ways, including “human book bindings” (292). Dee observes a vat of molten wax suspended over the craft tables and a trip wire in front of her. Ynona urges her into the room, but Dee unsettles her by disrespecting decoupage. Ynona angrily advances toward Dee, who removes her flip-flops, leaps the trip wire, and knocks over a jar of beads, sending Ynona stumbling down the hall. Dee jumps away down the tables, Ynona falls on the trip wire, and the cauldron of hot wax dumps on Ynona, killing her. The cauldron swings back toward Dee, smashing tables and the maze walls. Dee leaps from table to floor, breaking her arm. Someone grabs and throws Dee to safety before she is crushed. The Trazbet site favors Molly Mauler to kill #CinderellaSurvivor.

Nyles apologizes for not arriving sooner, and, conscious of the camera watching them, tells her not to worry about Griselda. Nyles removes his shirt—Dee appreciates his muscular form—and splints Dee’s fractured wrist.

They continue through the maze and encounter Gucci Hangman and Cecil B. DeViolent. Mirrors line one wall, scaffolding with seating lines the opposite wall, and a fashion runway extends down the middle. Gucci wears a red pantsuit and platform boots, while Cecil B. has changed his Die Hard costume for a blond wig, dark suit jacket, and white shirt. The Painiacs are surprised to see Nyles with Dee. Gucci thinks they are not getting enough money to kill them both, but Cecil reminds him of the Postman’s “punishment.” These Painiacs know their lives are in jeopardy.

Amused, Dee realizes that they are reenacting the male-model “walk-off” scene from the movie Zoolander. The first model, Gucci, walks down the runway, and the second must follow, imitating and elaborating on their walk. Dee’s injury means Nyles must do this challenge. Cecil announces the loser will have a “gasoline fight.” Cecil calls action. Dee kisses Nyles, wishing him luck.

Gucci sashays down the runway. Nyles successfully duplicates him and adds his own move. Cecil, watching the walk-off, ignores Dee. Dee spies someone moving under the bleachers and spots a huge red gas tank. She understands that Cecil plans to set her and Nyles on fire. She pantomimes to Nyles to keep the competition going while she removes the hose from the gas tank, which drains onto the floor and around the runway. Dee signals Nyles, who sprints down the runway toward her. Dee ignites the gasoline. They run away.

Comments note that there is someone in the maze helping Cinderella Survivor. One commenter wonders about the Postman’s silence. Others question why the Justice Department is not involved.

The fire spreads quickly. Gucci, trapped by the flames, leaps through them and crashes onto the ground. The gas tank explodes, dropping Cecil into the fire and shattering the mirrored wall, sending shards of glass raining down on Dee and Nyles and covering the floor. Gucci, his face melting, drags himself toward Dee. She and Nyles flee, slipping and falling. They are badly cut by the glass. Gucci expires before reaching them. Dee feels like she is living a scene from an action film. The sprinkler system activates, showering them with cold water. Dee pulls glass from Nyles’s hands, and he from her feet.

Dee smells wet dog, signifying Molly Mauler and her vicious animals are next in the maze. Nyles climbs metal scaffolding and spots Molly, dressed as a clown, sitting on top of the maze wall nearby. Nyles memorizes the way through the maze to Molly’s kill room. The Trazbet site shows the deceased Painiacs as “Suspended,” and still favors Molly to kill Dee and Nyles.

To distract Molly, Dee and Nyles put Ynona’s waxy corpse into a chair and dress it in Hannah Ball’s wig, which they fish out of the hot water. Wearing Ynona's green Crocs to protect her feet, Dee climbs the scaffolding. Molly, in a circus outfit and evil-clown makeup, waits impatiently, using a remote control to open and close the door to a wolf pen below her, enraging the wolves. Nyles pushes Ynona’s corpse through the maze, shoves it into Molly’s room, then returns to Dee.

Molly, thinking Cinderella Survivor has arrived, descends a rope ladder to look. Nyes and Dee cross the top of the maze wall. Molly realizes the trick and starts to climb back up the ladder. Dee and Nyles work to unfasten the carabiners holding the ladder to the scaffolding. Nyles releases one, bouncing Molly into the wolf cage and shaking the wall. Nyles falls backward off the wall. Wolves rip out chunks of Molly’s hair. Dee releases the other carabiner and Molly falls. Unwilling to kill Molly unless she must, Dee urges her to surrender. Molly refuses and tries to toss the ladder over the wolf cage. Dee opens the cage with the remote and the wolves kill Molly, then try to get at Dee. She drops off the other side of the wall to Nyles, who is breathing, to Dee’s relief.

A familiar voice hails Dee, and Slycer appears beside her, complete with costume and wicked knife—but this Slycer is shorter. Dee tells Kimmi to remove her mask, revealing Mara.

Kimmi gloats about how she fooled Dee and expounds on her evil plan. The Postman is Kimmi’s “daddy” and had also been the Painiac Prince Slycer. He brought Mara to the island in the first group of attractive inmates to boost ratings, but Mara was unpopular, so Kimmi killed her and adopted her appearance to befriend Dee.

The Postman contacted Dee’s dad to buy the rights to the abduction story and make it a reality-TV show, but Dee’s dad refused and disappeared with Dee. Though Kimmi and the Postman searched, they could not locate them until Monica emailed Kimmi under the pretense of writing an article. The Postman killed Monica. Kimmi is angry that Dee replaced her with a different sister. Kimmi planned to get Dee to Alcatraz 2.0, appear as Mara to rescue her from Slycer, and then live as sisters on the island.

Kimmi has been running Alcatraz 2.0. She killed the guards, the other inmates, and Gassy Al, had Dr. Farooq eliminated, and used Dee to kill the other Painiacs. Dee tells her now the whole world knows the truth. When Dee asks why Kimmi abducted her, Kimmi quotes Dee’s childhood poem about wanting a sister. Kimmi plans to kill Dee and the others, while she, as Mara, heroically survives.

Griselda, holding a laptop, appears and announces she has broadcast their conversation live. Nyles awakes. Dee explains that their fight at I Scream was fake. Dee knew Mara slipped up when she mentioned Gassy Al’s cowl. Kimmi rushes Griselda. Dee intercepts Kimmi and knocks her down. Kimmi loses the knife, Dee grabs it, and then Kimmi rushes Dee and impales herself. Dying, Kimmi comments they would have been good sisters. Dee disagrees.

Comments reveal that people in high-level government positions are facing trials and impeachment for their involvement with Alcatraz 2.0.

The friends go to the water’s edge, where they can watch for help arriving either by boat or helicopter. Dee is exhausted and in pain, but more worried about Nyles’s injuries. He assures her he will be fine. Griselda follows the news: The FBI arrested the attorney general, and the president faces impeachment. Half of the Postmantics think she, Dee, and Nyles are awesome, but others threaten to kill them for destroying the Postman. Nyles believes it will be safer back in the UK. Dee does not want him to leave. Meeting her eyes, Nyles assures her he will stay. Nyles promises they will memorialize Ethan. Nyles worries that now that Dee is famous, she will be too busy for him, but Dee promises to always have time for him. They kiss. A crow camera behind them swivels to watch.