Catching Fire

Katniss lives in the Victors' Village, haunted by the Games. President Snow visits with a threat: convince Panem her berry stunt was love, not defiance, or face annihilation. The Victory Tour begins under the shadow of surveillance and lies.

Katniss and Peeta tour the districts. In District 11, a man is executed for saluting Katniss. The love performance fails — every district is simmering. Katniss proposes a fake engagement to escalate the distraction.

District 12 transforms into a police state under the new Head Peacekeeper Thread. Gale is publicly whipped. Katniss sees rebellion spreading and realizes Snow cannot be appeased. The Quarter Quell is announced.

Katniss and Peeta train for the Quarter Quell. They study past victors and realize these tributes are different — older, angrier, politically aware. Alliances form. Haymitch orchestrates strategy from behind the scenes.

During pre-Games interviews, Peeta claims Katniss is pregnant. The victors hold hands on stage in defiance. The arena is a tropical clock with rotating horrors. Katniss allies with Finnick and Mags.

Katniss decodes the arena's clock structure. The jabberjay wedge tortures tributes with screams of loved ones. Johanna Mason joins the alliance. Trust fractures as Katniss cannot tell who is truly allied and who is performing.

The alliance solidifies as Beetee reveals his plan to electrocute the Career tributes using the lightning tree. Trust deepens between Katniss and Finnick. But Katniss privately resolves to die so Peeta can survive.

Beetee's plan goes wrong. Johanna attacks Katniss to remove her tracker. Katniss fires a wire-wrapped arrow into the force field as lightning strikes. The arena explodes. A hovercraft extracts Katniss — into the hands of rebels, not the Capitol.

Katniss wakes to learn the full scope of the rebellion. District 13 is real. Peeta is a Capitol prisoner. District 12 has been firebombed. Gale saved her family, but everything else is gone. The Mockingjay has no choice but to fly.