- Connie keeps trying to get in touch with Luciente, but she can't. So she tried and ended up in a different future.
- She meets a woman who seems to have had extensive plastic surgery and is upset at Connie's sudden appearance.
- The woman's name is Gildina; she threatens Connie with being arrested, or the future equivalent of being arrested, which would presumably be worse (this isn't a nice future).
- Connie convinces Gildina she's from the past; Gildina is still confused.
- Gildina is a bit like Dolly in the present.
- Rich people seem to live forever (200 years) in this future; everybody else dies at 40 or so.
- Poor people are treated even worse in this future than they are in Connie's present.
- Gildina has lots of drugs—again, like Dolly.
- Also she has super-immersive-future-television to distract herself.
- The city (New York) is also so polluted that you apparently can't even see sunlight (they don't have windows).
- There's no recycling either, and everybody eats processed yuck. It's like the anti-Mattapoisett, this place.
- And suddenly a guard shows up. He's like Geraldo, but with super-pimp implants and cyborg evil.
- He threatens Gildina, telling her she'll end up in the organ bank. He threatens Connie too, but she's not scared because she's actually in the past.
- Multinational corporations rule the future, it looks like. Bummer.
- The guard grabs her and she has some trouble disappearing, but finally she manages it…
- And wakes up back in the hospital bed, which doesn't seem much better.
- The drugs in her brain are supposed to keep her from getting angry, but since she's able to travel to the future they don't work so well.
- Sybil and Tina were worried about her since she was out cold, but she winks at them.
- So, maybe having future powers makes her immune to electrodes in the brain?