CHAPTER 11

Summary

Dr. Stone explain that the team is now on the top level of the facility's five levels of decontamination. The descent to the bottom level, where the capsule is located, requires the team to go through a rigorous sanitization procedure on each of ..........

Notes

The thoughts of the various team members as they lie in their beds prove quite telling. Stone's thoughts reveal that he has information about meteors he has not yet shared with the others. Leavitt contemplates the.........

CHAPTER 12

Summary

Dr. Hall awakes to the recording of a woman's voice and goes to the cafeteria where Leavitt gives him a suppository designed to decontaminate the gastro-intestinal tract. At their morning conference, Stone discusses the theories of Dr. Rudolph Karp with the group. Karp was a scientist who claimed he had isolates previously undiscovered organisms within...........

Notes

Crichton again foreshadows the tragic ending of the story he is retelling when summarizing the groups hypothesis on the.............

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