Covering the early 1970s to 1975, this episode recounts SAVAK's killing of Sazegara's apolitical childhood friend Morteza Ebrahimi Hesari and his entry into mechanical engineering at Aryamehr University. There he secretly printed and distributed Ali Shariati's banned books, organized strikes and led an exam boycott. Disliking engineering and facing security pressure, he left after two and a half years, obtained a delayed military exemption, and moved to Chicago's Illinois Institute of Technology, choosing political activism with the Freedom Movement.