Sartorius
- We learn offhand that Kelvin spent his training period in an exact replica of the station. Exact replicas will soon be coming out of the woodwork. Keep an eye out (or an exact replica of an eye out, if you prefer).
- Kelvin goes back to Gibarian's room. He's scared to go in because the woman might be there, but he finally sucks it up and in he goes.
- And once he's there he rummages around and finds the books Gibarian recommended.
- And now we've got Kelvin telling us more about the early Solaris history.
- The book is about the Shannahan expedition, in which one guy named Fechner managed to fall out of his plane into the ocean. Oops. Way to go Fechner.
- Another pilot named André Berton apparently saw something, but wouldn't talk about it when he got back to base.
- Kelvin finishes the book then goes up to see Sartorius.
- The door to Sartorius's room is locked. Kelvin thinks he hears little scampering footsteps behind the door—Sartorius doesn't want to let him in.
- This is all sort of like a horror film, what with the closed doors and creepy sounds. The body count is lower, though.
- After some shouting back and forth, Sartorius agrees to come out.
- Kelvin yells at him about Gibarian's death and the fact that Sartorius has locked himself in the room.
- There are sounds of someone trying to bash through the door. Sartorius grows increasingly agitated and begs Kelvin to leave; he promises to find him later.
- He goes back into the room and Kelvin hears sounds of scuffling and a high laugh. Creepy.
- Kelvin goes downstairs to the room under Sartorius's cabin, thinking of spying on him, but he unexpectedly finds Snow in the cabin. Always in the way, that Snow is.
- They exchange some ill-tempered banter. Then Kelvin goes off to the store rooms.
- He finds Gibarian's body in storage in deep freeze. The black woman is lying next to him, and he touches her and finds out that she's not frozen.
- So he figures he must be going mad.
- He tries to figure out some way to tell if he's mad, but it's tricky since he's the one inside his own head, and he can't get out of it.
- Kelvin decides to run an experiment where he cross-checks the station's location from the satellite with his own calculations as to the location.
- He figures if they both match, then he's not insane.
- He convinces himself that he's not mad, which makes him despair.