Beware the Gemini
- After absorbing all of the nonexistent rules, the children are shown into a sunny classroom full of empty desks where they are told they will soon be joined by other new students and some unexpected new arrivals who've been brought in by recruiters.
- A few minutes later, a dozen new students flood the room, and Reynie notices that two of them look pretty dazed—the two that are being escorted by well-dressed men with shock watches. Yikes. Recruiters? Yeah, right—Reynie realizes that these two dazed and confused students have probably been recruited via kidnapping.
- He can't think about it for too long, though, because there's a loud mechanical whine in the hallway that's getting louder and louder. Finally a man in a super-fast, super-loud wheelchair booms through the door—a man who introduces himself as Mr. Curtain, but who looks exactly like Mr. Benedict.
- What's going on here? Reynie and the others worry that they've been played. Or that Mr. Benedict has been kidnapped. Or that Mr. Benedict has a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde thing going on. Gulp.
- They manage to stay calm during Mr. Curtain/Mr. Benedict's welcome speech, but back in their rooms, they're angry and confused and wondering what to do.
- The boys are reminded by a friendly though dim-witted executive named S.Q. Pedalian that they are free to talk after lights out (10:00PM) as long as they don't make any sound (um, huh?). They thank him, and just after he leaves, Kate and Constance drop into the room through the ceiling panel.
- They talk about what they should do and finally decide to send a Morse code message to Rhonda, Number Two, Milligan, or Mr. Benedict himself—whichever one of them is on duty across the bay at the moment to receive their messages. The messages are supposed to be somewhat cryptic, so they use Kate's flashlight to send: "We see Mr. B when we see Mr. C. How can this be?" (12.47).
- The message they receive back is considerably more cryptic, containing the words "Beware, therefore, the Gemini" (12.55), which stumps the kids for a bit.
- Eventually they realize that the Twins are the zodiac symbol for the sign Gemini, and piecing together the rest of the message they realize that Mr. Curtain and Mr. Benedict must be identical twins who were separated at birth, and therefore have (or, in the case of Mr. B, had) no knowledge of one another's existence.
- How's that for a twist?