Paper Towns Part 2, Chapter 16 Summary

How It All Goes Down

  • Quentin and Lacey Pemberton talk about Margo Roth Spiegelman, and she agrees to go with Quentin, Radar, and Ben to check out the mini-mall again.
  • While they're snooping around, a group of people in masks show up.
  • One of them turns out to be Gus, the SunTrust security guard, with his friend Ace.
  • They say they liked doing "urban exploring" (2.16.48) and sometimes Margo would tag along.
  • But she wasn't big on the exploring part. She wanted to stay in the grungy places they went through, like this one, and write in her notebook.
  • Lacey asks them why they didn't consider that Margo might be depressed, and one of the guys says "somebody calm that bitch down" (2.16.54), which makes Ben mad, and he tries to punch the guy.
  • Now that that's over, Radar notices the pinholes in the wall near Margo's bedroll, and he wonders what had been tacked up there.
  • Lacey mentions that she'd seen Margo Roth Spiegelman's notebook before (Margo Roth Moleskiegelman) and they wonder what happened to it.
  • Looking around one more time, Quentin notices brochures for more pseudovisions, and makes a note to check them out.