After Logan and Jessica had managed to escape the City, they had found their lifeclocks had gone white, they were beyond the reach of the Thinker! They had also met an old man, Ballard, who showed them that no-one had to die at thirty, that they could live and grow old as he had!Hoping to free the citizens of the City with this knowledge they returned, but were taken captive and brought before the Thinker for interrogation using Surrogates