After Francis captures the three fugitives, a big-game hunter named James Borden captures Logan and Francis, while they are looking for Jessica who disappeared from their campsite the night before. He then releases Logan and Francis for the purpose of hunting them. While his wife is given the opportunity to hunt Jessica. The sworn enemies must unite if they are to survive and save Jessics. meanwhile REM has turned the tables on the sandman assigned to kill him sets out on a search for his missing friends.
Logan is shot with a dart that erases his memory by men hiding behind a tree. He then is captured by Francis and another sandman who return him to the City of Domes so that he can go to Carousel and testify before the people that there is no sanctuary. Rem and Jessica are captured by a man from an unamed city who explains that Logan has been placed in transit. transit is a way of neutralizing potential enemies without using violence by a temporary loss of memory. Rem and Jessica must find a way to save Logan from the City of Domes before it is too late.
The Earth has been ruined by something in the distant past-- war, plague, ecological disaster, it is never revealed. The remains of humanity have lived within a sealed, domed city, unaware of the condition of the outside or the origin of their own living conditions; to them, the city is and always has been the entire world. To maintain the internal balance of the city, both reproduction and death are carefully controlled by a monolithic master computer. The only sex is loveless and nymphomaniacal; there are no relationships, no wives or husbands, only "the circuit" where you can obtain a temporary sex partner, as well as orgy rooms, filled with clouds of narcotic gas. Babies are born in glass boxes; the palm of their hand is implanted with a "life clock," a penny-sized lamp that looks like a crystal. At age 30, the life clock flashes red, and the bearer must report for a ceremony where he is told he is "renewed" but is in fact incinerated. Those who wish to avoid the 30-year-limit must become what is called a "runner." Runners are considered criminals, and hunted by policemen known as "sandmen."