CHAPTER 28

Summary

Hall runs back into the lab and tells Stone about his discovery. Together they decide to tell Burton to breathe deeply in order to alkalinize his bloodstream. But Hall can see that a rat within the pathology lab, which should have been killed by Andromeda, is still alive and breathing normally. As he tries to comprehend this, the computer ............

Notes

Burton is still alive because the virus has mutated and is now harmless to both him and the rat. Instead of...........

CHAPTER 29

Summary

Stone explains that Hall can get to a substation on another level by climbing up through the central core of the facility. As he climbs, machine sensors shoot Hall with.............

CHAPTER 30

Summary

Hall wakes up in the infirmary on level IV. Stone congratulates him on stopping the countdown and informs Hall that the organism must ............

Notes

The happy ending. Hall's ingenuity was a big part of the team's survival, yet without the organism's chance mutation into a harmless strain, most ...........

Epilogue

Summary

The epilogue is a question and answer session that follows the burn up of a manned spacecraft during re-entry into the atmosphere. NASA decides to............

Notes

We are left to guess that the reason for the NASA crash is the danger posed by the Andromeda Strain, which is still out in space. Despite all............

 

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