Diatribes from Heinz include discouraging analysis about just how hard it is going to be to find a few space rocks in thousands of hectares of frozen wilderness. He tells Brian he is going to have to be very lucky. When Brian helps out two Japanese tourists, underdressed for the cold, he gets their story. It is another dead end, but it leads Brian to Domenic, a 10 year old who provides critical information. That's when Georgee is drawn back in to the story by virtue of some intriguing family history.