Part Two: Pages 141 - 170 Summary

Since the laboratory is closed, Carson decides to go for a ride. He chooses a horse, and while riding gets caught in a desert storm, taking shelter in a cave to wait it out. When he emerges, he sees Nye and observes him removing his compass to check his direction. Curious, Guy follows him, but doesn't see the turn that brings Nye back behind him for a confrontation. Nye threatens Carson with a rifle, but Carson disarms him, shoves a piece of gum in the chamber, and throws the magazine on the ground.

Susana takes a broken CD player to Pavel Vladimirovic, who, despite having never seen one before, manages to repair it for her using parts he scavenges from bins of circuitry on the shelf. She is impressed, and they talk for a while about the...