The narrator met his (Andrew’s) wife for the first time who was very concerned about him and then she went home after they spoke for a while. The psychiatrist questioned him and admitted him to a psychiatric institution. The policemen started questioning him and called in a psychiatrist when the narrator gave strange answers. He realized that he had been arrested simply for not wearing clothes which surprised him. The narrator was made to put on clothes, at which he mused upon the importance and value of clothes among the human race. The narrator had a voiceless "briefing" telling him that he must comply with everything now, that he had a mission to fulfill, and that being afraid among humans was understandable. He tried to reach Andrew’s office but was caught by the police and was taken to the station. The narrator went into a bookstore and saw a book by Isobel Martin, Andrew’s wife, briefly reading it. He ran away from the gas station and went to the campus of Cambridge University.
He walked into a gas station where the clerk called the police on him, while he read a magazine in order to gauge the language. He tried to make his way to Cambridge but was hit by a car, then when taken into an ambulance reacted with horror towards the humans and jumped out of the ambulance. The narrator awakened in his human body, naked and on a motorway, confused by everything but observant of what was going on. The narrator described himself as being non-human and Andrew as being more alien than human from the little time the two spent interacting before Andrew was taken away. The Humans is a tale of discovery, connection and the meaning of life, told from the perspective of an alien visitor to Earth who is waylaid on his mission by the various unexpected details involved in the typical human life. Published by Canongate, Great Britain, 2014. NOTE: The following version of this book was used to create this Study Guide: Haig, Matt.
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