Montag is in disbelief. Who could have pulled the alarm for his house? Mildred, he thinks. Beatty orders Montag to burn down his own house. Montag obeys. His entire house is in flames. Even though it's 3:30 in the morning, the entire neighborhood comes out of their homes to see all the action. After Beatty takes away Montag's earpiece, Montag kills Beatty with a flamethrower! This (I thing) is where Montag gets the ball rolling. Montag also kills all the other firemen around him. Even more shocking, Montag manages to kill the Hound as well. When Montag goes out into the back yard, he finds four books that Mildred missed. He takes them along with a Seashell (the he lodges in his ear) and runs away. Listening to the live police reports, he uses the Seashell to his advantage as he's a fugitive on the run. Montag heads to a gas station to wash the soot of his face. He hears that war has been declared (Well, that escalated quickly!). Montag hears on the radio that the police are advising people to look for "a man running." Therefore, Montag tries his hardest to walk everywhere, so as to not arouse suspicion. As he's walking down a street, he sees a car approaching him. Montag thinks it's the police. After he almost gets ran over, Montag realizes that it's just a bunch of teenagers who couldn't have cared less if they killed someone. Maybe they were the same people who killed Clarisse? We'll never know as that information isn't revealed before the end of the book. Montag goes to a coworker's house and hides the books. He proceeds to call an alarm on for that house. Montag goes to Faber's house and gets some advice: Go along the railroad tracks. They're never used anymore as almost all transportation is done above ground. Faber says that there's a lot of hobo camps along the tracks. The government is doing all they can to capture Montag. A new Hound is looking for Montag. The new Hound can recognize many different scents. Montag follows Faber's advice, and finds one of the camps. The hobos give him a drink that will make him smell different. Granger, the leader of this particular hobo camp, shows Montag a portable TV. They watch the police chase and see the camera zoom in on a random guy on the street. The announcers say that this guy is Montag, and they declare that the search is over. The media has to keep the people entertained, and if they had taken any longer to find the real Montag, the people would have gotten bored. Next, Montag learn that the hobos aren't hobos at all. They're books! What? Well, the hobos have found a way to fabricate a photographic memory, thus storing books in their heads. Hobos on the outside, books on the inside. As long as they don't die, the hobos can restore books eventually.
The book ends in an epic apocalyptic finale. A bunch of bombs are dropped onto the city. Montag and the hobos are determined to help the survivors, and restore humanity.
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