Part 1: His Maculate Origin, Chapter 5 - 8 Summary

Ben talks Jill into planting a miniature voice recorder somewhere on an exterior wall of Michael's hospital room. She finds an appropriate wall inside the closet of an occupied adjacent room and tapes the recorder to it. After a few days, she feels that the recorder may be discovered, removes it, and gives it back to Ben. He gives her a transcription of the first day of taping on which Secretary General Douglas talks with Michael and tries to convince him to give up all claims to Mars by signing a legal document. Michael goes into his dormant state and does not sign. Jill and Ben leave the apartment and fly in a taxi to a restaurant in Hagerstown, Pennsylvania.

Ben selects a table and asks for a stereo tank (television) to be...