 Stunned, Evey learns that her supposed imprisonment is in fact a hoax constructed by V so that she could experience an ordeal similar to the one that shaped him at Larkhill.He reveals that Valerie was a real Larkhill prisoner who died in the cell next to his and that the letter is not a fake.Evey forgives V, who has hacked into the government's "Fate" computer system and started emotionally manipulating Adam Susan with mind games.