Driven by a guilty conscience, Foyle tries to give himself up, but is captured by Presteign's lawyer Regis Sheffield, who turns out to be a spy for the Outer Satellites. Sheffield tells Foyle that when the "Nomad" was attacked, Foyle was taken off the ship, transported 600,000 miles away, and set adrift in a spacesuit to be a decoy to attract ships to be ambushed. Instead, Foyle "space-jaunted"—teleporting a cosmic distance, very much further than had been previously believed possible—back to the "Nomad". Now, the Outer Satellites not only want PyrE, they want Foyle as well, to learn the secret of space-jaunting.