The narrator, having overslept, drives toward the Vantôme lake fair on the day of the Moulinards' planned blockade and her own planned assassination of Paul Platon. She stashes the Škoda on the secret escape route she had cleared with the Maos, then walks down the D79 through the crowded Guyenne Agricultural Exposition. She reflects that Pascal will not miss her absence, dismissing her as a shallow translator with the heart of a bourgeois.

At the boat dock, she waits for Burdmoore, to whom she has assigned the task of separating Platon and his bodyguard from the crowd and shooting them at the lake's edge. A tracker alert announces Platon is early. The black Crossback arrives with the Serb bodyguard, the driver Georges, Platon, and the celebrated author Michel Thomas, who takes notes for future writing. Fair officials, thrilled by the surprise visit, usher the deputy minister toward a prizewinning cow and its boil-faced farmer.

The Serb abandons his post to flirt with two teenage girls, disappearing behind a generator. A band covers Guns N' Roses while the narrator scans anxiously for the absent Burdmoore. The Moulinards' protest then arrives: Crouzel's tractor, Aurélie with a bullhorn, banners, and milk tankers flooding the D79 with milk, trapping Platon's car and the police sirens behind it.

Burdmoore finally appears. The narrator hands him the P38 pistol, which he admires nostalgically and pockets. But when she signals him to act, he refuses outright, mocking her for thinking he would charge a deputy minister in front of a crowd as police close in. He thanks her for the gun as a souvenir, calls her a crazy chick who failed to stir anyone up at Le Moulin, and walks off to join the protesters, leaving the assassination plan collapsed.