George Edelman was a human-Controller, who, after eating maple and ginger flavored instant oatmeal, caused the Yeerk that controlled him to go insane. Thinking he had nothing to live for now that the world saw him as a crazy person, Edelman felt that he had no choice left but to commit suicide, which he tried to do by jumping from the window of a skyscraper and plummeting towards the earth. He was saved by the Animorphs in their bird of prey morphs, they carried him towards the edge of a river, but he had sunk into the river and was now stuck in the mud at the bottom. Rachel then dived down in her dolphin morph and freed Edelman, then she pushed him up to the surface and nosed him to the riverbank, where he was yanked up onto dry land and given CPR by Arnold Schwartzenegger.