Chapter 6 Summary

It's six years later. Dr. Halsey is on a medical ship floating in space. She has DJ decode an encrypted report sent to her by the doctor's boss on the Spartan Project. The report lists all of the diverse side effects the chimpanzees are experiencing from the drugs they are injecting. Dr. Halsey joins Mendez in Room 117, where John is being sedated. The doctor notices that the 14-year-old boy has the physique of an Olympic athlete of 18. When John asks the doctor how to win this mission, she tells him that he has to survive.

Chapter 6 Analysis

It infers that the drugs that are currently being tested on the chimpanzees are the same drugs that will be injected into John and the other children that are being trained. It foreshadows the doctor having to work out changes to the experiment to limit the...