When the firemen go to burn down Montag's house, Captain Beatty continues to verbally provoke Montag. He also forces Montag to burn his own home down as an extra dig. All the while, Montag is listening to his friend Faber with a little device in his ear called a green bullet. Eventually, Beatty notices that Montag is listening to something, but he thinks it's a seashell—a device used to transmit radio signals. When Beatty decides to hit Montag on the head, the green bullet falls out of Montag's ear and lands on the sidewalk. Beatty picks it up, turns it off, and puts it in his pocket. Then, Beatty verbalizes what he realizes at that moment as follows:
"Well—so there's more here than I thought. I saw you tilt your head, listening. First I thought you had a Seashell. But when you turned clever later, I wondered. We'll trace this and drop it on your friend" (118).
As shown above, Beatty discovers that Montag has someone helping him in the shadows. Beatty didn't know that Montag wasn't working alone, and finding the green bullet proves to him that there is at least one other person involved in Montag's doings. Fortunately for Faber, Montag kills Beatty before Beatty is able to find out who Faber is.
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