This chapter is quite short. The title and key line is one I previously came up with for "Angel On My Shoulder".

Plutarch looked at Peeta Mellark. "I want to make sure we understand. You are stating that the liberator of Panem and our new president is mentally ill."

"Yes, that is exactly what I am saying," Peeta said. "He is insane, and I mean it literally. She has records to prove it." He pointed to the Centrist candidate, former president Coin.

"But Mr. Mellark... Surely you can see this is a very sensitive issue to raise, especially in light of your own history," Plutarch said. "It is no secret that you yourself were tortured and brainwashed into an unwilling double agent. So how can you simultaneously challenge our President's sanity and ask Panem to accept you in his place?"

"I have my problems, and I have never denied it," Peeta said. He pointed at Gale. "But he is worse!"

Plutarch looked over the candidates. "Does anyone have anything to say to this?"

"It would be a breach of confidentiality to discuss Mr. Hawthorne's psychiatric records publicly," Coin said with a hint of a smile. "But I believe I can safely say, the evidence does not contradict Mr. Mellark."

"President Hawthorne, do you have anything to say?" Plutarch asked.

Gale only looked mournfully at Jo, but Beetee spoke up: "I was aware of the assessment. So is Ms. Mason."

"Of course, gorgeous," Jo said with a smile. "It's the crazy that makes you interesting."

"Cut to break," Gale said. "Can you please cut to break?"

Finnick spoke up. "I have a question for President Coin," he said. "You said you have a psychiatric evaluation of President Hawthorne. What about Johanna?"

"Break," Gale said hoarsely. "Break. Break..." He started at a tap on his shoulder. Beetee leaned forward and pushed a writing tablet into his hands. He looked over it, and after a moment, he smiled.

"Plutarch... ladies and gentlemen of Panem," he said, suddenly calm and assured. "You have heard what my opponents have to say about me. Just remember who they are: a mass murderer and a petty autocrat who sacrificed thousands of lives in a bloody war for power they now say they are ready to share. People of Panem, if they say I'm crazy, then I say maybe it's time... to give crazy a chance!"

There were long moments of thunderous silence. Then Jo whistled and began to clap, and one by one, the audience all over Panem joined in.