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PART THREE
Chapter 1
Alex is released from jail and receives a lot of press interest. Whilsteating breakfast he reads the paper and notices articles about himself.Alex then returns home to find that his block of flats has been cleanedand the elevator fixed. He returns home to find that his parents have lethis room out to someone else and do not want him back.
Chapter 2
Alex goes to his favourite record shop to listen to classical music,but this makes him feel ill.
He runs out of the record shop to the milk bar and takes some drugs.He decides to commit suicide, but he has to think of a non-violent way todo it because the thought of violence makes him feel ill. He goes to thelibrary to try and find ideas. Whilst there he meets the old man whose librarybooks he damaged before getting put in jail. He and his friends decide toget revenge and beat Alex. The library assistant calls the Police.
Chapter 3
The policemen turn out to be Dim (Alex's former gang member) and Billythe leader of the gang he beat up before going to prison. Both of them stillbear a grudge towards Alex and decide to drive him out into the middle ofthe country and beat him up. They then abandon him and Alex walks off tofind help.
Chapter 4
The nearest house that he can find turns out to belong to the writerhe attacked. (However, the writer doesn't recognise him as he was wearinga mask at the time.) The writer gives him a bath and food. The writer realisesthat Alex is the person in the newspapers, who has been experimented onby the government and gets him to tell his story. In return the author tellsAlex about the night that he and his wife were attacked, and how she laterdied.
Chapter 5
The writer explains how the government has been bragging about bringingdown crime figures by employing young criminals in the police force, andconditioning people like Alex. The writer explains that he and his friendsare against the present government and it's policies. He then introducesAlex to his friends, who decide to use Alex as a tool to embarass the government.They then install him in a flat and play classical music at him in a bidto get him to attempt suicide and become a martyr. Alex jumps out of thewindow.
Chapter 6
Alex wakes up in hospital with all his conditioning undone by the governmentin order to avoid a political scandal which would wreck their chances forre-election. Alex's parents come to visit him in hospital and tell him thatthe lodger has been attacked by the police and decided to move out, so Alexcan have his room back. Alex says that he will think about it. Alex is visitedby the government minister of the Interior who tells him that the writerhas been put in jail. The minister offers Alex a high paying governmentposition in order to keep quiet about what happened to him, Alex agrees.He then listens to classical music, without felling ill, and starts daydreamingabout being violent. He is back to normal.
Chapter 7
(This chapter is only included in the full English version of the text.)
Alex forms a new gang with himself as leader, but has started to becomebored of violence, and his heart is not really in it. Whilst paying fora round of drinks, a photo falls out of Alex's wallet, it is a photo ofa baby which Alex has taken to carrying around. His friends laugh at himand then go off on their own for a night of crime. He meets his old friendPete who is out drinking with his new wife. This makes him begin to thinkabout settling down and finding a girlfriend of his own and giving up violence.