She is stunned and dizzy when he tire hits the steps of the Radley""s front porch.To assist his frozen-with-fear, helpless sister, Jem takes off toward her and drags her away from danger.After telepathically seeing into her mind, Charles realized that Shaw intended to place Russian missiles in Cuba, causing global nuclear annihiliation (and WWIII) by the two super-powers.With nervous energy and overstated hyperbole in her emotional speech, she shows off her green nail polish (calling it "divine decadence") and love of cigarettes.He was told by John that "SkyNet is the virus" - it had become "self-aware" and was already initiating a massive nuclear disaster upon humans.