The current Head Gamemaker, Plutarch initially strikes Katniss as a vain, superficial, and heavily sadistic man—in other words, the perfect Head Gamemaker. Only in the novel’s final pages is it revealed that Plutarch is secretly a rebel, using his influential government position to tamper with the Hunger Games and free Katniss and Peeta. Ultimately, Plutarch remains a mystery: it’s not clear how much of his personality is “for show” to disguise his rebel allegiances, and how much of it is, in fact, his true self.
Plutarch Heavensbee Quotes in Catching Fire
The Catching Fire quotes below are all either spoken by Plutarch Heavensbee or refer to Plutarch Heavensbee. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Note: all page numbers and citation info for the quotes below refer to the Scholastic Press edition of Catching Fire published in 2013.
Chapter 6
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There was something strange about it. Almost clandestine. But why? Maybe he thinks someone else will steal his idea of putting a disappearing mockingjay on a watch face. Yes, he probably paid a fortune for it, and now he can’t show it to anyone, because he’s afraid someone will make a cheap, knockoff version. Only in the Capitol.
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Katniss Everdeen (speaker), Plutarch Heavensbee
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Mockingjay
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Plutarch Heavensbee Character Timeline in Catching Fire
The timeline below shows where the character Plutarch Heavensbee appears in Catching Fire. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 6
A man named Plutarch Heavensbee introduces himself to Katniss as the new Head Gamekeeper, and asks Peeta if he...
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Chapter 16
...confirms that they have—orders have been backed up for a while. Wiress and Beetee watch Plutarch, who is sitting above the training stations. Wiress notices that there is a strange “ripple”...
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Chapter 17
...are shocked by this display, and two of them look like they’re ready to faint. Plutarch Heavensbee tries to conceal his displeasure, but Katniss sees that he’s as shocked as any...
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Chapter 23
...clock theory to Johanna, Beetee, Finnick, and Peeta. As she explains, she remembers the watch Plutarch was wearing during her Victory Tour: this watch, she sees, was a clue to the...
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Chapter 27
...on to her, and she is too weak to protest. Inside the hovercraft, Katniss sees Plutarch. He closes Katniss’s eyes, and Katniss realizes that she’ll soon bleed to death from Johanna’s...
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...from her machines and staggers through the mysterious building where she’s being kept. She finds Plutarch, who is talking to Finnick and Haymitch. She’s even more confused when Plutarch kindly tells...
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...from the various “uprising” districts—3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 11—were informed of this plan. Plutarch was in on the plan—he’s been working against the Capitol for years now. Beetee, another...
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...to kill Katniss by cutting her arm—she was removing the tracking device from her body. Plutarch adds that Katniss had to be saved, because she’s become a symbol for rebels across...
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