 What is Ned Vince's ultimate fate?
Ned Vince was still dimly conscious when that black, quiet pool geysered around him in a mighty splash. With infinite care—small, sharp hand-tools were used, now—the mummy of Ned Vince was disengaged from the worthless rust of his primitive automobile. For Ned Vince, timeless eternity ended like a gradual fading mist. All this weirdness had a violent effect on Ned Vince—a sudden, nostalgic panic. To Ned Vince, it was all utterly insane and incomprehensible. Ned Vince did not know how Loy Chuk had probed his brain, with the aid of a pair of helmets, and the black box apparatus.
 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