Capture The Flag

As Henry waits for Anna and Sinan, the conveyor belt brings them into the boarding area. They see Snake-Arm and hide behind a cart, then trip him as he approaches. As he lies on the floor moaning, Anna realizes he’s saying something—the letters BTV—and then notices he has a silver jaguar ring. When she exclaims, “[Y]ou’re with us!” he says he’s with the flag (192). The snake tattoo on his arm doesn’t indicate his membership in the Serpentine Princes, it depicts a symbol of the Virginia Society of Amateur Herpetologists, and José realizes that Snake-Arm is the man in George Malbut’s story. Anna apologizes for hurting him, and he says they have to get the flag back. In pain, he hides under a baggage cart to rest.

Anna, Henry, and Sinan climb into the cart and go back down the conveyor belt. While hiding among the luggage, Henry tells Anna he tried to play the video but her camera is broken. Before he can explain that he used his game console to record Snickerbottom, they hear people searching the luggage. Just as Snickerbottom is about to find them, José drops his backpack full of books on the senator from a higher belt.