Gore and a group of men walk 16 miles to use Cape Felix, a magnetic observatory, as a hunting base. Gore must keep the men, who are starving, freezing, and dying of thirst, from giving in to despair. There, at Cape Felix, the flash of lightning and doorway of blue light appear as Gore is extracted.

After the attack on Graham and the narrator, the Ministry moves all the expats and bridges to new safe houses and confines them to the premises. Adela gives the narrator a gun. Graham will barely look at the narrator as they transition to the new house. She accuses him of being weird about her kissing him. He says it shouldn’t have happened but then admits he’s been trying to court her. He doesn’t understand what women of this era want or what he has to offer. He says he stopped things because she was drunk and frightened. The narrator can’t understand his attitude. She asks him what he wants, and he asks her to undress. They have sex, and the narrator guides Graham through ways to please her. Later, she expresses surprise that he didn’t seem completely inexperienced.