Academy
- Moon-Watcher and his group don't remember being experimented on the next day. Not clear if that's because they've been hypnotized or because they don't generally remember stuff.
- Another encounter with the Others.
- And at night back to the slab. It only picks the best and the brightest to mess with this time. That includes our hero, Moon-Watcher.
- It shows him visions of him and the man-apes all contented and happy and having eaten enough.
- Give a man-ape a dream, and next thing you know you'll have a moon rocket.
- The slab keeps showing him the contented man-apes over and over in their little four person family grouping. Why just two little man-apes in this domestic scene? Maybe because in Arthur C. Clarke's day, two was a reasonable number of kids.
- It says that the new patterns of Moon-Watcher's brain would be passed on to his kids through his genes. So the slab is rewriting his genes, supposedly. Tricky slab.
- But not tricky enough; during one night, it accidentally fries the brain of a man-ape. Dead man-ape.
- The slab goes dark for one night, but then it goes on as before. Moon-Watcher is seeing terrible, wonderful visions of man-ape life to come.
- One day, Moon-Watcher sees a pig, and inspired by his time with the slab, he picks up a rock, and then he kills the pig.
- He thinks he will never be hungry again, like Scarlett O'Hara, but more Neanderthalish.