Using a spacesuit, Capa welds through the interior airlock, before opening the exterior airlock; the decompression tears off the interior door. Capa deploys the payload, boarding the bomb as it detaches and Icarus II blows up in the sunlight. Inside, he finds a wounded Cassie, but is choked by Pinbacker, who claims he spent seven years talking to God, and was told to send humanity to Heaven. Pinbacker holds Capa over an edge, but Cassie grabs Capa, who tears the burned skin from Pinbacker's arm, making them fall. Gravity shifts as Capa and Cassie hurtle towards the Sun, and they land on the wall. Cassie encourages Capa to ignite the bomb, and he rushes to the controls. Capa watches as the bomb ignites at the edge of the Sun and spacetime distorts; the Sun's surface halts before Capa, who reaches out and touches it.