The Illegal

John arrives in Calder’s office, asking for a favor: to grant Keita Ali a minister’s special permit so that he can remain in the country. In exchange, John offers to obtain the USB stick and hand it over to Calder. John then reads parts of the memo that Yvette exposed when she went through Wellington’s briefcase and asks Calder to decode it. He explains that “it looked like someone was sending cash to Zantoroland officials on two levels: two thousand dollars for each ‘Illegal Returned Before Landing’ and ten thousand for ‘Information Leading to Deportation’ of each Zantorolander dissident hiding in Freedom State” (321). After this discussion, Calder says Keita has until June 21 to get the USB stick to him. If he does, then he will receive a special permit to remain in the country.

Keita returns to Ivernia’s house to find police cars surrounding it. He turns around and goes straight to AfricTown to avoid getting caught. There, he asks Lula to hide him for one month. She grants his request as long as he agrees to appear in her upcoming demonstration. She also agrees to have a security vehicle accompany him on his training runs.