Brelan tells a suspicious Harriet that the trip to Amalthea will take five days, and that they will be back at Callisto in around twelve days. Sara and Melody are stranded in Space City without any money. Brelan offers to help Harriet by taking some classes, but they don't go smoothly. They fall out over Anna, and Brelan bars Harriet from the bridge. Finbow picks up a distress signal. Rosie thinks that Timmy is suffering from "space computer allergy". The Commissioner offers her the post of project manager with the Astrophysics Research Council on Leda.