Act 4 Summary

Arthur follows Slartbarfast to a place on the planet that has tape recordings of an almighty computer that is supposed to answer the question about life and the universe. The tape recordings reveal that the computer created an ever more powerful computer, earth, who was supposed to find the answer to life. Arthur also finds out that the mice were the ones that created the earth. The group (Arthur, Ford, Zaphod, and Trillian) meets up in front of the mice who tell them that they do not want to recreate the earth but that they just want the answers to the questions of the universe. Arthur and Trillian being the last to people from earth are asked to find the answers to all of the questions. Shortly after the encounter with the mice the group has to run because the police starts attacking them and they are trapped in a corner with no escape.