The horde is still at the base, and Baggins is worried that something will happen to them. He asks the captain to open the man-eater sample and get it out. The captain thinks that the maneater is in the final storage, and that the secret exit from the base is the only way out. Baggins wonders why the self-destruction program is being set up now, when the horde has already left the base. He wonders if the horde is a second stage zombie, and wonders where the monster came from. He goes to check on the baggins and finds that the monster is bigger and covered with more wood.