Summary:Legion

This page contains a chapter by chapter summary of Legion. We hope this summary will make it easier to find specific areas of the book, as well as providing a quick plot refresher for anyone who doesn't want to take the time to reread the entire book.

Chapter 1

Stephen Leeds goes to J.C.'s room where he uses a picture of Osama bin Laden for target practice. He tells him to use the mansion's shooting range, but J.C., one of the least obedient of the the aspects, merely continues. Tobias then appears and asks about the man waiting in the sitting room. Stephen doesn't want to talk to him because he's probably just another person wanting to study him and his strange form of schizophrenia. He enters a different room with a couch and talks with his hallucinatory psychologist, Ivy. She's displeased with him when she finds out that the petitioner has been waiting for four hours. Stephen finally goes to see him, asking his butler Wilson to bring four drinks, two of them imaginary for Ivy and Tobias. They enter the sitting room where a young man is waiting. He claims that his fiancee is missing and needs help, but with the help of another aspect, Audrey, who is a handwriting expert, Stephen figures out that it is all a ruse so that the grad student can follow him around and study him. He kicks him out and receives the day's mail from Wilson. A blank envelope has nothing inside but a black-and-white picture of the Lone Cypress when it was only a sapling, decades before the camera was invented.

Chapter 2

Stephen is still thinking about the photograph two days later. Ivy insists that it's fake, but Armando thinks it's genuine. Wilson arrives with the day's mail on a silver tray. An identical envelope has arrived, this time with a picture of George Washington after a morning shave. It certainly resembles him, but it's impossible to verify because there are only portraits of George Washington. They go to ask Armando.

Chapter 3

They take the picture to Armando, who claims it is genuine without even needing to run any tests on it. Steve calls the number written on the back of the photo. A woman's voice answers, asking to meet with him. He agrees, and at J.C.'s insistence, stops at his room to grab his handgun. Wilson admits Monica into the sitting room. Steve is quite skeptical that someone has invented a time machine, but she explains that the pictures were taken by a camera that takes pictures of the past. Steve perceives (through Ivy) that the camera has been stolen, and Monica finally admits that is has. She shows him a picture of Sandra, and Steve gets very agitated. She had helped Steve harness the abilities of his mind, then had left him. He agrees to help investigate.

Chapter 4

They visit Balubal Razon's house and discover that he travelled to Jerusalem.

Chapter 5

The plane ride, introduction of Stan, Tobias' friendly spaceman/weather reporter, and Kalyani, a linguist fluent with Hebrew, that they will use in Israel.

Chapter 6

Discussion of hunt for Sandra and a trip to the church, caught J.C. and Ivy having a snog. Falls unconcious

Chapter 7

Tied up on chairs, kidnapped by the MNLF. Meet with Razon who tries to help them escape. Grenade

Chapter 8

A month passes, and Monica visits offering to employ Stephen to rebuild the camera. He refuses and receives the last picture the camera took as payment. He starts researching and Arnaud appears, an aspect expert in temporal and quantum science.