Calvin again falls into a trap of her own making. She believes that she is trying to circumvent the problem with the robot at Consolidated, which became too caught up in the fact that an interstellar jump represented the death of humans, and so it shorted out. But instead, Calvin puts Donovan and Powell in danger by suggesting to The Brain that he doesn’t need to worry about the men dying, essentially trying to eradicate the First Law. Just as Bogert and Kallner ignored the consequences of this action in the previous story, so too does Calvin in this one.