More Than Human Part 2, Section 15 Summary

  • Finished probing Stern's mind, Gerry tells the psychotherapist to calm down and explains the gestalt organism to him.
  • The teen describes himself as the center of a complex organism: Baby, a computer; the twins, teleports; Janie, telekineticist; and himself, telepath and central control. Gerry says the creature was organized by or around Lone. The teen replaced Lone, but wasn't developed enough at first and received an occlusion (block) from probing Miss Kew's mind when they first met in the library.
  • He also explains that Miss Kew was destroying his gestalt. The Baby is three barrier prevented him from seeing that he was effectively Alicia's child, yet also something a whole lot bigger: the gestalt.
  • Stern asks if maybe the gestalt life form is dead. The teen answers that it isn't.
  • The psychotherapist asks what's next for the gestalt. Gerry says it'll do what comes naturally: defend itself.
  • Stern asks how the life form will apply itself. The teen says he's been kicked around his whole life, and that the people kicking him around were evidently having fun. Now he wants to have the same fun. Uh-oh.
  • The psychotherapist tells the teen that he, Gerry, has more to learn. Stern gives the teen's anger as an example.
  • Gerry dismisses the points the psychotherapist brings up, until Stern explains that the gestalt is unique and therefore alone. That makes Gerry tell Stern to shut up.
  • The two argue. Stern says people learn to live with being alone by accepting something called morality.
  • Gerry says the psychotherapist is just afraid of Homo Gestalt, the next step up from Homo sapiens or humans. The teen uses his mind powers to make Stern sit down.
  • Gerry cleans up the office. He retrieves Beanie and has her ask Baby how to delete the the audio recording. She vanishes, returns and erases the recording, then vanishes again.
  • The teen leaves the office and waits for Stern to wake up. The psychotherapist wakes, and the teen goes back in. They repeat their initial exchange and Gerry makes up an excuse about being in the wrong office.
  • He heads for the police station, grinning, ready to make them believe a fake report about Miss Kew's death. He laughs, wondering what Stern will make of the thousand-dollar bill lying there. The teen decides the thought is more amusing than killing the psychotherapist.
  • Part 2 concludes with Gerry wondering, "What the hell is morality, anyway?"