Friend agrees to take Alex in as a “son”, and he spends a week at the Friend estate in the country. Afterwards, he is picked up by Eva Stellenbosch, a teacher at Point Blanc, and flown to Paris, where they stop overnight to refuel. After dinner in the hotel, Alex realizes that his drink was spiked, but pbumes out in his bedroom. Unconscious, he is taken to a laboratory where every inch of his body is photographed. He is then returned back to his bed.