The holding cell is state of the art with CCTV, microwave eyes, pressure mats, blast doors, laser blinds, eight different kinds of gas, and Vulcan mini cannons from the Helipad three floors above.
Jo soon finds out that a man had approached Lissy in the park and that he had noticed how she liked to watch the squirrels in the trees.
The apes had been extinct for over thirty years, victims of inbred depression, petechial hemorrhages, cirrhosis, and renal failure.
She is a walljacker, one of the four hundred thousand who have chosen to deal with life’s disappointments by hooking themselves up to a wall jack in order to shut out the world.
After the public outcry it’s decided that the baby ape must be aborted, but Jo finds herself torn and so she works a deal.
The broker Group and County agreed on an arrangement, Lissy would have her baby, but would have a post partum wipe to erase her memory, new I.D, and a fund set up to take care of her afterwards.
A year later as the story comes to a close, Mary is standing in front of the primate exhibit, looking at Cleo, the baby ape, at the San Diego zoo.