- D-503 rises "all purified and distilled," (10.1), and heads downstairs, where a controller announces that he will be receiving a letter. The announcement leaves him feeling less distilled, as if "the drop of ink clouded the transparency of the distilled solution." (10.3)
- The letter states that he has been assigned to I-330 and that he needs to go to her. He hates her! Hates! Hates! Hates! Naturally, he goes to her.
- She asks him if he has gone to the Guardians and he says he hasn't. She reminds him that the 48-hour statute of limitations for finking is up, and he's in the soup now.
- She puts on the yellow dress again, which "was a thousand times worse than if she had not been dressed at all." (10.24)
- She also has alcohol and cigarettes. He points out how incredibly, lethally illegal it is to own such things. But she's taking them anyway! She points out that she's really not afraid of him turning her in.
- They have incredibly hot throw-down gorilla sex. He speaks of dividing into two people. ("One, the former D-503, Number D-503 and the other . . . Before, that other used only to show his hairy paws from time to time, but now that whole otherself left his shell. That shell was breaking, and in a moment..." 10.46)
- He leaves, but the encounter haunts him and he has bad dreams all night.