Bill fails to find Jo but,seeing the address Tynsham House,Wiltshire,on a blackboard,travels there with Coker. They find part of the London group there and,seeing the future as reliant on community living,Coker stays whilst Bill,remembering the name of a commune in Sussex Jo once gave him,presses on. He picks up orphaned child Susan and is eventually reconciled with Jo and her friends. He returns to Tynsham House to tell Coker but finds he has gone and all the other residents have died of the sickness. Meanwhile the triffids' numbers are increasing.
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