 What is Ned Vince's ultimate fate?
His car hit the white-painted wooden rail sideways, crashed through, tumbled down a steep slope, struck a huge boulder, bounced up a little, and arced outward, falling as gracefully as a swan-diver toward the inky waters of the Pit, fifty feet beneath.... Ned Vince was still dimly conscious when that black, quiet pool geysered around him in a mighty splash. As that heavy, natronous liquid rushed up through the openings and cracks beneath his feet, Ned Vince knew that his friends and his family would never see his body again, lost beyond recovery in this abyss. The final instrument he used to test the mummy, looked like a miniature stereoscope, with complicated details.
 He is tranquilized and moved to a simulation of his previous life, where the Kar-Rah can continue to study him
 He is tranquilized and moved to a simulation of his previous life, where the Kar-Rah can continue to study him  He dies in a fatal car crash by drowning at the bottom of a deep pit of water  His body is put on display in a museum managed by the Kar-Rah  He wakes up to discover that the car wreck and experience with Loy Chuk was all a dream