Part III, Ajima Island: Chapters 55 - 58 Summary

The MAIT team is running out of time, and they really do not even know it. Back in the U.S., Raymond Jordan and Donald Kern watch a clock that tells them they only have forty-five minutes to get word from their team that they have been successful, or there will be a nuclear strike on the island. The MAIT team effectively places the explosive device and heads up the elevator, where they hope Pitt and Giordino are waiting for them. As they move upward, they do not know that a new robot has been positioned in place of one that was compromised. The technicians only know that the robots have failed for some reason, but because there is no external damage, they merely think that a circuit board has failed. The new...