Sadie climbs into Nadia Derain's filthy, vegetable-cluttered car, noting Nadia's erratic, near-comical handling of the gears. As they drive, Nadia preempts Sadie's directions, revealing she has been tracking the blue Škoda rental car since noon and surveilling Sadie's movements from inside the village church, where she had taken refuge from the heat. Nadia boasts of her observational skills, honed over twenty years of activism, particularly during the ZAD struggle where she helped push out the police.

Nadia launches into an extended denunciation of Pascal and his inner circle. She contrasts the gritty, peasant-aligned militancy of the ZAD with Le Moulin's pretentious theory-talk, mocking acolytes Jérôme and Alexandre as privileged boys who have never worked or suffered. She resents the commune's demand that she dissolve into an invisible collective "we," insisting that those born into poverty and large struggling families crave individual recognition, names, and respect, while the renunciation of self is a luxury of the rich.

Nadia accuses Pascal of fancying himself the reincarnation of Guy Debord, and she identifies the moment of her break with Le Moulin: in the dining hall, she publicly raised Debord's incestuous relationship with his full sister. Pascal silenced Burdmoore and lectured her in front of everyone, deflecting with Freudian generalizations about universal human deviance. Nadia mocks Freud crudely in turn. Sadie, observing Nadia's wounded anger, recognizes her as a rich vein of grievance to mine for intelligence.