Tris and Marcus get to a hallway with two doors and decide they need to split up because they don’t have time to check both. I’m not really sure why they think it’s going to take an unfathomable amount of time to poke your head in the room and “computer? nope.” and then do the same to the next, but okay.

Tris is worried if she finds the computer she won’t know what to do.

“If you find the computer, you will find Jeanine. I assume you know a few ways to coerce her into doing what you want. She is not, after all, accustomed to pain,” he says.

I’m sorry, did I miss the part of Dauntless training that included “how to torture”? I mean, the kids were abused very badly, but torturing for intent has somewhat different methods.

Ah, apparently it would take too long to check both rooms because there are “security measures” on the lab. (Then why not check to see which room has said measures and which one is, idk, a bathroom or some such?)

When Tori said there were insane security measures, I thought she meant eye scanners and passwords and locks, but so far, everything has been open.

Clearly, this is not the case, because the book never met a logical problem that it couldn’t fuck into a video game level.

A computerized voice identifies her, and then she winds up in some holodeck version of the fight club ring back at Dauntless.

“Intruder,” the voice says, and now it sounds like Jeanine, but that could be my imagination. “You have five minutes to reach the blue door before the poison will kick in.”

Seriously, why do traps like these even have the option of passing? She’s an intruder. You said her name and called her an intruder. It’s not like you do this to everyone who comes in and only those with permission know the trick to passing. IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE ISN’T SUPPOSED TO BE THERE, WHY DO YOU EVEN GIVE THEM THE OPTION OF PASSING?

We are in straight-up Indiana Jones shit right here. Hell, worse than that, at least those illogical ancient booby traps didn’t know 100% that you weren’t supposed to be there. It’s conceivable that those super-advanced ancients might want to get at their own gold after burying it and decided to put in traps. And at least in Last Crusade, those traps were tests and meant to be passed eventually.

You’ve sunk pretty far when you make less sense than an Indiana Jones set.

I shouldn’t be surprised; this is Jeanine’s work, just as empty of conscience as she is.

First, Jeanine has a conscience, she’s started a bloody coup because she feels so strongly that this information must be kept secret. Just because it doesn’t match up with your conscience doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

Second, giving you a chance to survive instead of just electrocuting you to death as soon as you touch the door handle doesn’t seem very conscience-less to me.

I dont’ even care about the rest of the chapter. It’s just a silly “fear landscape” test thingy that I simply can’t care about because why is it even there? Anyway, she gets over her fear of shooting people in the face in the process.

Tris makes it into Jeanine’s lab and finds Tori already in there, beating the snot out of Jeanine and raving about her dead brother. Tris realizes that if Tori kills Jeanine, she’ll never be able to find the file she’s after, so this starts off another fistfight. At least this time it makes sense she wouldn’t try talking first; it’s a time-sensitive problem and also Tori doesn’t seem likely to listen to anyone at the moment.

Unfortunately, it’s all for naught, because Tori manages to kill Jeanine anyway. Dun dun dun! (Wait, wasn’t the original plan to have Marcus do his computer-fu to get the file? Can’t she just wait for him to arrive? As long as no one smashes the computer, the file is still in there. I can be recovered.)

(Hell, even if they do smash the computer, you can still recover stuff off those with some luck and patience.)