Uglies: Inside Summary & Analysis

Tally looks around. She suggests they glue the hovercar door closed, so David does so with nanotech glue. Then, Tally uses a powerjack to open the elevator doors. She can tell that the elevator is a long way down, but she leaps into the shaft and manages to bounce without hitting the sides. As Tally starts to whistle for David, she hears a cruel pretty’s voice and the elevator drops. When it stops, Tally whistles for David. She shushes him and then they use the powerjack to open elevator doors above them, but the tool makes way too much noise. They crawl into the hallway and read the doors labeled as operating theaters and imaging rooms. They enter the operating theater, which is empty.

Tally and David walk past the morgue and then decide to head down. They figure the next floor is the bottom floor, and it has interrogation rooms and a “disorientation room.” David tries to open one room with the powerjack, but they give up and move on. Suddenly, Tally hears Dr. Cable. A door slides open and Dr. Cable walks out. Tally catches Dr. Cable’s attention, surprising her, and David hits Dr. Cable on the head with the powerjack. Tally hears another voice and turns: it belongs to a tall, elegant woman. The woman is Shay, and Shay is pretty.