The next morning, lin tells Shmoop that he's going to take back the capsule, which contains the genetic material from the dead man, and the Graviton Beam emitter, which is a device that can be used to detect the presence of life outside the capsule. . He's not going to let the dead woman be taken outside by the silicon life, he says, because she's a human, and he doesn't want her to be captured by the life outside. He wants to protect her until he can take out the capsule and secure the other stratum of life, so that she can't be taken out by the other life. Ooh, that sounds like a good idea. Shmoopers, who's been eavesdropping on the conversation, thinks it's weird that lin would want to take away a human's life, especially when he knows that the other humans in the capsule are under the protection of the lin's capsule.