 What effect does Stage Two have on Herrell?
Whatever it was, he had no business in it; for five minutes before he had been spaceborne, on the Long Jump from Earth to the thriving colonies circling Betelgeuse Nine. A slit in the lower hemisphere of his body opened, like a purse, emitting a thin, pussy, fetid fluid which Hatcher caught and poured into a disposal trough at the side of the eating room. His second in command was busy, but one of the other team workers reported—nothing new—and asked about Hatcher's appearance before the council. One brush with them, in ages past, had almost destroyed Hatcher's people.
 It distresses him to the point of breaking out of the cell.
 It distresses him to the point of leaving the cell in order to find the woman.  It distresses him to the point of risking what wearing the space suit will do to him.  It distresses him to the point of breaking out of the cell.  The woman’s distress inspires him to break out of the cell.