Chapter XII: Carpitz is the 12th chapter of The Testaments. It contains section 30-33 with Daisy as narrator.
Synopsis[]
Daisy meets with members of Mayday and agrees to infiltrate Gilead as a spy.
Plot[]
Section 30[]
Ada fills Nicole/Daisy in on more details about Gilead. Gilead is at war still with California, though Texas managed to fight Gilead to a standstill. The Canadian government is neutral, but fears invasion, so it’s possibly they will crack down on Mayday’s activities.
Section 31[]
Ada takes Daisy to the secret headquarter of a Canadian Mayday brigade, housed in the backroom of a carpet storage, where they meet the Mayday activists Elijah and Garth. Daisy learns about her mother's and her foster parents' activities in the resistance, and how she was smuggled out of Gilead as a baby.
Section 32[]
Daisy learns from Garth and Elijah that Mayday has a source inside Gilead who has been feeding them information, but they don’t know who it is. The same source claims to be compiling documents that could bring down Gilead. However, the link to their source was the Clothes Hound and now that link is broken.
The fallback plan is to have Nicole pretend to be converted by missionaries and go to Gilead to fetch the documents. The source demanded it specifically be Nicole, saying she had the best chances since she’s a national icon. Nicole reluctantly agrees to the plan, knowing there’s no guarantee it isn’t a trap.
Section 33[]
Ada, Garth and Elijah start training Nicole. She needs to learn how to pray, how to pretend to be converted and how to kill if needed. She takes on the name of Jade, and the source demands that she get a specific tattoo.
Notable Quotes[]
“Quote here” — Context here[1]
Trivia[]
(e.g. observations, cross-references, 'useless knowledge')
Notes[]
(e.g. contextual implications)
References[]
- Initial plot summary taken from: The Testaments on Bibliofile.com. A review by Jennifer Marie