The code S.H.-11 changed the investigation overnight.<\/p>\n
Until then, Agent Bell\u2019s team had been reconstructing crimes that had already happened.<\/p>\n
Now they might be able to stop one.<\/p>\n
The photograph found in the motel contained more than Sophie.<\/p>\n
Behind her, dozens of children crossed the school courtyard.<\/p>\n
Bell\u2019s analysts enlarged the image.<\/p>\n
A small circle had been drawn in blue ink around another student.<\/p>\n
A boy walking six feet behind Sophie.<\/p>\n
Claire recognized him.<\/p>\n
\u201cNoah Patterson.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sophie heard from the bed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat about Noah?\u201d<\/p>\n
Claire turned too slowly.<\/p>\n
Sophie sat up.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy did you say Noah?\u201d<\/p>\n
Agent Bell looked at Claire.<\/p>\n
There was no point hiding it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe think he may be the next child they were watching.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sophie stared at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know him well?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s annoying.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel raised an eyebrow.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve mentioned.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe steals everybody\u2019s pencils and says it\u2019s borrowing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Claire waited.<\/p>\n
Sophie\u2019s irritation vanished.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe gets headaches.\u201d<\/p>\n
The room became silent.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow do you know?\u201d Dr. Shah asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe goes to the nurse.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow often?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Claire felt her skin tighten.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnything else?\u201d<\/p>\n
Sophie thought.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe got sick on the bus last month.\u201d<\/p>\n
Agent Bell was already calling his team.<\/p>\n
\u201cNoah\u2019s parents need to be contacted immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sophie looked frightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid they put the thing in him too?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they did, don\u2019t let them wait like with me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe won\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
Noah Patterson\u2019s mother, Rachel, initially believed the FBI call was a scam.<\/p>\n
Then agents arrived at her home.<\/p>\n
Within ninety minutes Noah was at the same hospital.<\/p>\n
He complained the entire way.<\/p>\n
Sophie heard his voice from down the hall and whispered, \u201cSee?\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel smiled.<\/p>\n
\u201cReassuringly annoying.\u201d<\/p>\n
Because Sophie\u2019s location remained protected, Noah was evaluated separately.<\/p>\n
His blood work revealed elevated hormonal markers.<\/p>\n
Not hCG.<\/p>\n
Different endocrine abnormalities.<\/p>\n
Brain imaging followed.<\/p>\n
At 4:20 p.m., Dr. Shah entered Sophie\u2019s room and closed the door.<\/p>\n
Claire knew.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid they find something?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA small lesion.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sophie stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn his head?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cKevin\u2019s cousin?\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel closed his eyes briefly.<\/p>\n
Dr. Shah nearly smiled.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomething like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Noah\u2019s tumor was much smaller than Sophie\u2019s.<\/p>\n
It might have remained unnoticed for months.<\/p>\n
Because investigators identified him early, doctors had caught it before significant symptoms developed.<\/p>\n
Sophie looked at Claire.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo my cancer helped find his.\u201d<\/p>\n
Claire sat beside her.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sophie absorbed that.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen at least it did something useful.\u201d<\/p>\n
Claire wanted to tell her she did not need to turn suffering into purpose.<\/p>\n
Instead she kissed her forehead.<\/p>\n
Noah\u2019s parents agreed to genetic testing.<\/p>\n
The result showed a hereditary cancer susceptibility variant.<\/p>\n
Different from the Hale mutation.<\/p>\n
But one included in Samuel\u2019s later research notes.<\/p>\n
Subject Eleven.<\/p>\n
The pattern was confirmed.<\/p>\n
Samuel\u2019s work had expanded into a system for identifying children with inherited vulnerabilities, modifying them, triggering the modification later, then studying the result.<\/p>\n
Dr. Shah put the pieces together on a whiteboard.<\/p>\n
Infant or childhood vector.<\/p>\n
Years of monitoring.<\/p>\n
Endocrine activation.<\/p>\n
Synthetic trigger.<\/p>\n
Tumor development.<\/p>\n
Engineered cellular therapy.<\/p>\n
Daniel looked at the sequence.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis entire thing was designed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr. Shah nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cParts of it clearly were.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo cure inherited cancer?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPerhaps originally.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd somewhere along the way they started causing disease to prove the treatment worked.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat appears increasingly possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eric stood by the wall.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy father would call that proof of concept.\u201d<\/p>\n
Claire looked at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou say that like you\u2019ve heard him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI have.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I was fourteen.\u201d<\/p>\n
The room quieted.<\/p>\n
Eric stared at the board.<\/p>\n
Samuel once developed an experimental therapy in mice.<\/p>\n
It appeared to prevent a specific tumor.<\/p>\n
The animals remained healthy.<\/p>\n
Eric remembered asking whether that meant the experiment was successful.<\/p>\n
Samuel said no.<\/p>\n
Not until they deliberately induced the cancer and watched the treatment defeat it.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe told me prevention without challenge proves nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr. Shah frowned.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn controlled animal research, challenge studies can have scientific rationale.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eric nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut he was talking about people by the time I was sixteen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Claire felt cold.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo Sophie was the challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sophie looked at the board.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd now the cells are supposed to beat it.\u201d<\/p>\n
No one liked hearing a ten-year-old summarize her own exploitation so accurately.<\/p>\n
The engineered cells recovered from NorthStar became the center of an urgent ethical debate.<\/p>\n
They might save Sophie.<\/p>\n
They might also carry risks nobody understood.<\/p>\n
The cells had been developed illegally.<\/p>\n
Their manufacturing process was undocumented.<\/p>\n
Their safety was unknown.<\/p>\n
But early laboratory testing showed extraordinary activity against Sophie\u2019s tumor cells.<\/p>\n
Dr. Shah explained this cautiously.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the dish, they attack cells expressing the synthetic receptor very efficiently.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow efficiently?\u201d Daniel asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cMore than ninety percent.\u201d<\/p>\n
Claire stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat sounds good.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is encouraging.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is always a but.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shah nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t know what healthy cells may also express the receptor.\u201d<\/p>\n
If Sophie\u2019s normal tissues carried it, the engineered immune cells could attack them too.<\/p>\n
Liver.<\/p>\n
Endocrine organs.<\/p>\n
Brain tissue.<\/p>\n
Potentially anything altered by Samuel\u2019s original vector.<\/p>\n
Daniel looked toward Sophie.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo the treatment could attack her.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Claire\u2019s hope collapsed back into fear.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat would Samuel know?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPossibly a great deal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Agent Bell entered at that moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe may have a chance to ask him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Everyone turned.<\/p>\n
Samuel had contacted the FBI.<\/p>\n
Not through a phone.<\/p>\n
Through an encrypted message sent directly to Bell.<\/p>\n
He offered to surrender under conditions.<\/p>\n
Eric laughed bitterly.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course he has conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat are they?\u201d Claire asked.<\/p>\n
Samuel wanted immunity from prosecution for his original research.<\/p>\n
Bell shook his head.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is not getting that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat else?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wants the cellular therapy transferred to a neutral research hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr. Shah frowned.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe says NorthStar will try to destroy it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd his third condition?\u201d Eric asked.<\/p>\n
Bell looked at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo see Sophie.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Claire\u2019s answer came immediately.<\/p>\n
Sophie looked at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cMom.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t say yes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were going to.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI was going to ask why.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bell answered.<\/p>\n
\u201cSamuel claims Sophie needs to hear something directly from him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Claire laughed.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had ten years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eric stepped closer.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere is he?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen he isn\u2019t surrendering.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe gave us a meeting protocol.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does he want me to do?\u201d<\/p>\n
Bell looked at Eric.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe does not want you involved.\u201d<\/p>\n
That surprised everyone.<\/p>\n
Eric\u2019s mouth tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe specifically said you would compromise the exchange.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel folded his arms.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat sounds designed to make Eric insist on being involved.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eric nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy father understands manipulation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bell agreed.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo do we.\u201d<\/p>\n
The FBI accepted the meeting in principle while refusing immunity.<\/p>\n
Samuel sent coordinates.<\/p>\n
An abandoned church outside the city.<\/p>\n
Meeting time: midnight.<\/p>\n
Bell\u2019s team prepared surveillance.<\/p>\n
Samuel changed the location twenty minutes before the scheduled meeting.<\/p>\n
Then again.<\/p>\n
Then a third time.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s checking for tails,\u201d Bell said.<\/p>\n
At 1:07 a.m., Samuel finally appeared at a closed railway depot.<\/p>\n
Unarmed.<\/p>\n
Alone.<\/p>\n
Agents surrounded him.<\/p>\n
This time he surrendered without resistance.<\/p>\n
By dawn, he was in federal custody again.<\/p>\n
Bell called Claire.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wants to talk.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen ask him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe says he will only discuss the cellular therapy with you present.\u201d<\/p>\n
Claire looked at Sophie.<\/p>\n
She was sleeping.<\/p>\n
Daniel whispered, \u201cYou don\u2019t owe him anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eric stood near the window.<\/p>\n
\u201cGo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Claire looked at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou want me to?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy father respects very few people.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe doesn\u2019t respect me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eric\u2019s expression was grim.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut he is afraid you won\u2019t let him control the outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was enough.<\/p>\n
Claire agreed.<\/p>\n
The interview occurred in a federal conference room attached to the hospital because Samuel claimed time mattered.<\/p>\n
He sat handcuffed at the table.<\/p>\n
For the first time, Claire saw him clearly without glass between them.<\/p>\n
He looked tired.<\/p>\n
Not frail.<\/p>\n
Not defeated.<\/p>\n
His eyes remained sharp.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou shaved her head,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Claire sat opposite him.<\/p>\n
\u201cChemotherapy did that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou could have preserved more of it if the regimen\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo not speak about her hair like you were entitled to a vote.\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel stopped.<\/p>\n
Agent Bell activated the recorder.<\/p>\n
Claire placed photographs of Maya and Sophie on the table.<\/p>\n
\u201cTell me why you did this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel looked at Maya\u2019s photograph first.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believed I could remove a hereditary death sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou experimented on children.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI developed a preventive genetic therapy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWithout consent.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cInitially within my family.\u201d<\/p>\n
Claire stared at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou think blood relation made Maya your property?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou behaved as if it did.\u201d<\/p>\n
His jaw tightened.<\/p>\n
Claire continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou treated Maya.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe developed cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou delayed conventional care.\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel looked away.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was a mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n
Claire almost stood.<\/p>\n
\u201cA mistake is giving the wrong dose of cough medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know what I did.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
For the first time, something in his face looked old.<\/p>\n
Not remorse exactly.<\/p>\n
Recognition.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaya died because I valued data when I should have valued time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Claire did not comfort him.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then you used Sophie.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI corrected the vector.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou injected her when she was six weeks old.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWithout my permission.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou monitored her.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou let Vale examine her under a dead doctor\u2019s identity.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Claire paused.<\/p>\n
Samuel looked at Bell.<\/p>\n
\u201cVale was not working for me by then.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho was he working for?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNorthStar.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho ran the program?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLeonard Price.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eric had named him.<\/p>\n
NorthStar\u2019s chief executive.<\/p>\n
Samuel explained that after Maya\u2019s death, he halted human use of the vector.<\/p>\n
NorthStar had already funded parts of the research.<\/p>\n
They owned infrastructure.<\/p>\n
Samples.<\/p>\n
Data copies.<\/p>\n
Samuel believed they had stopped too.<\/p>\n
They had not.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey wanted a commercial platform,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHereditary cancer prevention followed by receptor-targeted immune rescue.\u201d<\/p>\n
Claire stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cSay it like a human being.\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel\u2019s face tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey wanted to alter high-risk children so if cancer developed later, it could be destroyed using engineered immune cells.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat sounds almost reasonable.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt could have been.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cUntil they started triggering the cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel looked at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bell leaned forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho authorized SV-2A?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPrice.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Vale?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cExecuted the pediatric program.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cVane?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cProtected it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Claire pointed toward Samuel.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd you?\u201d<\/p>\n
He did not answer.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou started it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou created the thing they turned into this.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen do not sit there acting like the good scientist surrounded by villains.\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel\u2019s eyes dropped.<\/p>\n
Claire leaned closer.<\/p>\n
\u201cTell me how to save Sophie.\u201d<\/p>\n
That made him look up.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe cellular therapy can work.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCan?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf it is the batch derived from her cells six years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
Claire\u2019s blood chilled.<\/p>\n
\u201cSix years?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was four.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSamples were collected.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWithout us knowing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel continued.<\/p>\n
The cells had been engineered gradually as Sophie\u2019s receptor profile developed.<\/p>\n
NorthStar had maintained them frozen.<\/p>\n
SV-2A forced receptor expression.<\/p>\n
The tumors were the intended proof that the system could be targeted.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow do we know the treatment won\u2019t attack healthy tissue?\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel answered immediately.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
Claire closed her eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut there is a control switch.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr. Shah, listening remotely, interrupted through the speaker.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat control switch?\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel looked toward the microphone.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe therapeutic cells carry a suicide gene.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shah became silent.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf toxicity becomes severe,\u201d Samuel said, \u201cadminister the trigger agent. The cells die.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat trigger?\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel named a compound.<\/p>\n
Dr. Shah knew it.<\/p>\n
A medication already approved for another purpose.<\/p>\n
Claire felt the first genuine relief.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo there is a safety mechanism.\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the cells are authentic.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bell frowned.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel looked at Claire.<\/p>\n
\u201cNorthStar made multiple batches.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow many?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThree.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOne therapeutic.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOne enhanced.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the third?\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel hesitated.<\/p>\n
Claire\u2019s pulse quickened.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does the third do?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt removes the safety switch.\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence filled the room.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy would anyone create that?\u201d Bell asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cPrice believed a suicide gene weakened persistence.\u201d<\/p>\n
Claire stared at Samuel.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhich batch came to the hospital?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
The six vials recovered from NorthStar looked identical.<\/p>\n
Only encrypted manufacturing codes distinguished them.<\/p>\n
Samuel could decode the system.<\/p>\n
He requested the vial images.<\/p>\n
Bell provided them.<\/p>\n
Samuel studied each label.<\/p>\n
His expression changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Claire leaned forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis batch is not therapeutic.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen what is it?\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel looked up.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is the unswitched version.\u201d<\/p>\n
The one without an emergency kill mechanism.<\/p>\n
Claire felt her hope disappear again.<\/p>\n
Dr. Shah spoke through the speaker.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will not administer it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou shouldn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere is the safe batch?\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel looked at Bell.<\/p>\n
\u201cNorthStar kept it off-site.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI do not know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bell stood.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen start remembering.\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel shook his head.<\/p>\n
\u201cPrice changed storage after I left.\u201d<\/p>\n
Claire stared at Maya\u2019s photograph.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou said there were three batches.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOne safe.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOne enhanced.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOne without the switch.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo two others exist.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they were not destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bell\u2019s phone rang.<\/p>\n
He answered.<\/p>\n
As he listened, his expression shifted.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n
He ended the call.<\/p>\n
Federal agents had reached Leonard Price\u2019s home.<\/p>\n
Empty.<\/p>\n
His cars remained there.<\/p>\n
His passport remained there.<\/p>\n
Security footage showed him leaving the previous night carrying one refrigerated medical case.<\/p>\n
Claire looked at Samuel.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe safe cells?\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel\u2019s face tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd where would Price go?\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel stared at nothing for several seconds.<\/p>\n
Then his expression changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot where.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe would go to the only person who can verify the batch.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel looked directly at Claire.<\/p>\n
\u201cSubject Seven.\u201d<\/p>\n
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