- Now Gerry leaves Alicia's memories, still split in half, part of him eleven, three years after having effectively been Lone's child, part of him fifteen, roughly three years after having effectively been Miss Kew's child.
- Gerry stops listening to Stern's hypnotism instruction and tells him he received a series of episodes from Alicia in the library, without explaining the mind probe.
- Stern describes the reception of a series of episodes as a gestalt and says Gerry must have had a powerful block against recalling it.
- Gerry asks why. The psychotherapist guesses distaste for assuming a female ego. Gerry already says Stern dismissed that view of psychiatry.
- Gerry disagrees with Stern's guess that the teen was fearful of re-experiencing the pain of absorbing another's ego.
- The teen instead says he probed her mind, the first time he did it fully. Now he says his probing power is more developed. Shouting, he asks Stern if he knows who he, Gerry, is. The psychotherapist asks him to reveal it.
- Gerry realizes he doesn't have the words for it, so he probes Stern's mind.