

She's so tired that dying would be a relief. He tells Katniss, "Give me a reason why I shouldn't shoot." Katniss replies that she can't, but that the Capitol has been setting the Districts against each other, providing them with plenty of reasons to kill each other. Katniss stops her speech and screams at everyone to stop. The rebel troops treat the refugees with suspicion, ordering them to drop their weapons and shooting some who don't comply.

Katniss is rushed off to shoot a propaganda speech, and then the captured refugees arrive by train. When the hovercrafts go, Katniss says that it's horrible as lives will be lost. Katniss protests, saying that there are a lot of civilians in there, but the rest are convinced that those people made their choice by collaborating with the enemy. Gale suggests that they use the special bombs that he and Beetee designed to blow up the Nut and take it over from the inside. Once in District Two, Commander Paylor ( Patina Miller) mentions that the Rebellion failed to capture the arsenal from the Nut, a huge mountain containing Capitol infantry. It involves setting off a bomb that will kill many people and force the survivors to flee, and then deploying a second bomb in their direction to maximize the number of victims.

Katniss overhears Gale and Beetee ( Jeffrey Wright) discussing a dubious trick they mean to employ. On the way, she kisses Gale, but he calls it "the kiss of a drunk person." She jokes that with Peeta safely in Thirteen, he doesn't have to be jealous anymore. He admits that he has seen Peeta, and realized that if he stays this way, Katniss will always chose him over Gale out of pity. Gale Hawthorne ( Liam Hemsworth) accompanies her. Katniss goes to District Two with her military escort to film more propaganda videos for the rebel cause. He thinks that Katniss is a dangerous Capitol-created mutation, and tells Prim to kill Katniss. The programming inflicted on Peeta in the Capitol eventually makes him freak out. Once she can properly speak, she sees her younger sister Primrose "Prim" Everdeen ( Willow Shields) entering Peeta's cell.
