Meanwhile, in the empty hospital, Mousy Librarian's cryogenic stasis has failed, and she awakens as she melts. Finding herself without Jervis, and shivering in a hospital gown with a weak, but repaired, leg, she leaves to go home.
Dr. Stevens of the U.S. Geological Survey finally gets through to the police department via telephone to report the body of a Caucasian woman wearing a sweater, dead, down by the river. Doris takes the information but is distracted as the detectives have all gone into hiding and she is now working a second job as H.A.L.'s minion/secretary. H.A.L. recognizes Dr. Stevens as his old nemesis and believes he knows the deceased woman. H.A.L. orders Doris to dissolve the body in a vat of acid. She does so for another half mil. in her checking account.
A student geologist from the University of North Dakota, hitchhiking into Solomon's River, is met by Dr. Stevens, on his way back to the survey he was conducting down by the river. The student decides following this randomly-encountered geologist would be good, and does so.
On a quite populated deserted island, Dr. Scarlett awakes back in Dr. Turquoise's research lab after he and Nurse saw Dr. Turquoise pursued by angry natives. Nurse thought that Dr. Turquoise's pontoon boat-plane would be their ticket out, what with Dr. Scarlett still not quite up to snuff. They must be careful, however, as Dr. Turquoise's insane mother has loosed all the mutants...
A man working at the Solomon's River International Airport goes to lunch.
- What is the "shameful" reason Rajiv cannot return to India?
- Will Jervis realize Mousy Librarian is free before he does any more of H.A.L.'s dirty work?
- How will Doris manage to drag a body into a vat of acid without anyone noticing?
- Will Dr. Stevens regret taking on a woefully unprepared geological assistant?
- Will Dr. Scarlett and Nurse escape the mutants and finally fly off the deserted island?
- What did that guy have for lunch?
