Chapter 19 Summary

Isidore realizes he is back in his apartment. Irmgard Baty tells him he has to answer the door and send the bounty hunter away. Isidore goes out in the hall and realizes he has a living spider in his hand and delivers the spider into the garden. The bounty hunter (Rick) catches him and Isidore tells him that Buster Friendly proved that Mercer does not exist. Isidore also tells him that one of the female androids tortured the spider. Isidore refuses to help Rick, and Rick heads into the building alone.

Rick reflects that he has never caught an animal before, wondering if the Rachael look-alike tortured the spider. Rick then encounters a person in the hall who claims to be Mercer. Mercer reassures Rick that retiring the three androids is necessary and tells him that one is approaching. Rick sees Stratton, but...