Chapter 12 Summary

Rick and Resch return to the opera house and learn Luft has gone to the museum to an Edvard Munch exhibit. They go to the museum, and Resch asks Rick if he has ever known an android to have a pet, as he has a squirrel. Rick says that androids cannot keep warm-blooded animals alive for very long. The two study Munch's painting The Scream and Resch compares the figure's agony to that of an android.

Rick spots Luba Luft studying Munch's Puberty. She is surprised to see him there. He and Resch take her into custody, and she tells Resch he is an android just like her. She also asks Rick to buy her a print of the painting she had been looking at. Rick buys her a Munch print book. She tells him that she does not like androids, and she...