 Ignatz asks for a view of England beyond that of the quarantined London and Josephene shows him via the visual circuits of a shop-window dummy in Manchester, revealing a nightmare world where the Human Front have replaced the dolls with re-animated human corpses, 'Mememoids' whose brains have been taken over by replicating information patterns transmitted via a comic strip called Cruel Britannia, and castrated policemen with guns as phallic replacements.Following the completion of her transformation and indoctrination Primavera is sent out of England to spread the doll plague through Europe.Together with Ignatz she is led through The Seven Stars to a service tunnel in the Channel Tunnel.