"What is she going to see?" he asks flatly. "That you're a violent maniac in need of this place's 'help'? That you've still got a long ways to go before you're ready for the great 'enlightenment' of graduation?" He shakes his head. "You're from her future, so when it comes to you, there isn't even anything to get rid of. That's why the Admiral did this! It might be possible for inmates here to hold onto themselves, sure, but I think the 'hell flood' has shown what it takes. Not everyone will be able to endure and many will break, just like the character in that book. If Misty is graduated, then I'm sorry, but she is what they want her to be. You can't undo that, not so easily. What did I just say about wardens?"

Walter's complaints really do seem childish. Of course the Barge 'sucks' and is 'really bad.' That's why they need to escape. That's why they need to discipline themselves into an organized unit that accepts this is total war and fights back with everything they've got.

"Take Trevor, for instance... He is the first warden to openly concede with your perspective about the Barge being 'really bad,' but he wouldn't even go along with your anodyne scheme for a new monitor, would he?"