He didn't give you any idea at all.

Nothing just said grab you, grab your socks and head over to the barn immediately.

Why socks?

I don't know.

It's Zeke.

When he gets excited about anything, he just uses random words out of place.

You've known him longer than me, Mr.

Kelly.

The hell took you 2 so long?

Didn't I say damn quick?

Jeez, Mr.

Station Manager.

Sorry we had all that Blizzard to wade through.

No, no.

Yeah, I'm sorry, Lauren, man, I'm really sorry.

Just damn it, Zeke.

What happened?

What's the matter?

Man, man, OK, it's see, it's like, OK, you are freaking me out here, buddy.

Just sit down, man.

Let's talk this through.

Yeah.

All right.

OK.

Y'all remember last month before you headed out to Emory Station, we had a meeting out here.

Patrick had been updating the wiring and was sleeping in the backroom for a few days.

Yeah, hard to forget that smell.

Made me kind of lightheaded.

Yeah, right.

OK, well, remember when we said we had the other room that could be cleared out to make a second room with the kitchenaire for the old pole would be?

Well, I figured since things were going fairly smoothly recently, I'd head over there and start clearing some out.

I started moving old crates and boxes when I found one that looked like them.

Soft insulated cooler bags.

All right, go on.

Well, the flat was open and I looked in and to make sure it was empty and.

Yeah, it wasn't empty.

What was inside of it?

I took a photo here before I walked the whole thing outside and buried it.

For safety.

I put a marker flag over it in the ice so we can find it again.

Uh oh.

Yeah, yeah, Tommy.

Damn right.

Oh, oh, you look here alone, man.

Uh oh.

Is this?

Yep, that's a biological.

Has a warning sticker on the inside file within.

Notice how the contents lead dullo staying the inside of that case.

Also look at the label.

Beauregard Lowing Viral research Department BSL Dash 3 Coccy.

Coccella Burnetti.

June 1st, 1993.

Well, I think it's safe to say Coccella Burnetti isn't a researcher's name.

This bag was in the room behind where we have the bedroom set up.

Yeah.

Damn.

Well, man, I'm so sorry.

We're just excited to set this place up for you that it just never occurred to us that we should first check the rest of the joint out.

Stupid.

I can't believe I did.

Zeke, come on, buddy.

This isn't your fault.

It's it's isn't anyone's fault other than the moron from 1993.

We didn't secure samples properly.

OK, guys, let's let's take a few breaths here.

Logic this out.

Holy moly.

Is it even safe to breathe in here anymore?

Miss Thomas?

I don't think it's necessary for you to breathe through your hand like that and cover your mouth.

Guys.

Seriously.

OK, The picture says a sample was out here in 93.

What is that, like 30 years ago?

The vial is broken.

The bottom of the cooler or bag or whatever this is is stained.

Frozen liquids don't tend to stain.

So when the exposure occurred long before the station was shut down in the early, what, 2000s?

She's been exposed to the air all that time.

It's constant below freezing temps.

We may not have anything to worry about here.

I don't know, Deputy Marshall.

I think we might need.

We will, Mr.

Kelly, We will.

First, let's take this photo and show it to Doctor Tim's.

If she doesn't know what cohorts, whatever it is, she can look it up and tell us if there's any reason to worry.

And if there is, how much work.

Yeah, I think I'm with Tommy on this here, Beth.

I need to think that the station manager on this one, because I've got all these people I'm looking over to take care of.

I get that, buddy.

I swear I do.

Look, let's look at the facts first, though, OK?

That bag with the vial has been sitting here at least since 98, maybe all the way back as 93.

Even if it's airborne and we've been infected, which I'm not saying we are, then we've been exposed to it for over 3 months now since we first started using the barn.

We've been back and forth from the main station to hear from the main station, the external science buildings.

If if there is contamination potential it may have already spread station wide.

Are you trying to help this situation lawman?

Or try to give me high blood pressure?

My point is, if it got out, isolation of the nine people who've been in the barn wouldn't matter.

We're all stuck here in Munson Scott until October and the summer season anyway.

De facto quarantine.

Before we get too far ahead of ourselves, let's just go talk to Doctor Temps.

Not to alarm you, Deputy Marshall, but hasn't Doctor Jennings been under the weather several times recently?

Yeah, you're correct, Mr.

Kelly.

She has been.

But again, we don't know what the symptoms were supposed to be on the lookout for.

So let's get more information, understand what this is and what we should do, what to look out for, how to deal with it.

Then we'll be in a better place.

Doctor Tim's go.

Ahead, Marshall, Just finishing up my eggs and potatoes.

Doctor Zeke and I need to chat with you privately.

We're in one of the exterior buildings, but we're heading back 15 minutes.

There's a bit of.

Worry in your voice there, Marshall?

All right, lads, We'll have a chat in my office once you're back.

I'll see you then, yeah.

Recording stopped.

Sweet suffering Jesus, what in the name of all that's holy made you think that was a grand idea?

Doctor, it's not like he knew that it was I.

Don't remember asking you a single thing, Marshall.

You'll get your turn, I promise.

Now out with that, Ezekiel.

You'll see a vial with BSL 3 Biosafety Level 3 on it and you stick your nose in the case.

I didn't know it was going to be inside.

Oh, that scary looking forked tongues making a circle on the yellow background didn't give me a clue, you twit.

OK, now to be fair the one on the outside of the bag was facing away from me.

Wasn't until I opened the top that I saw the one inside.

Besides, who puts contaminants inside of a food storage area?

Suppose I shouldn't even be asking you boys what you were doing inside that old pole, anyway.

Something to do with where Frederick sneaks off to every so often.

Making some booze, are we?

It's it's complicated, Doctor.

Fine, fine.

Keep your secrets if you must.

In any case, I've heard of this disease years before.

It's also known as Q fever.

It's a logical based and can be passed to humans through dried animal fluids, birth products, urine, feces or milk which becomes aerosolized and inhaled.

That's how we think we got it, Doc, by inhaling the air in the room next to where the open container was.

But if I remember correctly, human to human transmission is almost yes.

As I thought, human to human transmission is exceedingly rare, and when it does occur, it's through blood transfusion, sexual contact, close intimate exchanges, that sort of thing.

So then if we do have it.

The chances you brought it back are as close to 0 as they can get.

Only exception would be if you're having relations with anybody on station.

Like Kendra and I or Mr.

Ferguson and.

You boys, you boys.

So then what I'm hearing is that we have less to worry about than we thought when we first walked in.

It's not all smooth sailing lads.

I'm going to want to run a full panel of blood tests on each ear I.

Hate needles?

Oh, what, you cop on Ezekiel?

I'll be sticking a tiny needle in your arm, not hacking it off with a butter knife.

OK, so the nine people you listed off that are part of your Little Hallions group, anybody have unusual symptoms?

Symptoms like fatigue, nausea, vomiting, dizziness or Lightheadedness, Blood pressure issues or muscle aches, joint pain.

But look you 2 are passing each other tells me that's an eye.

So who will we be starting with?

Kendra, has every symptom you just described made you level with me, Doctor Thames?

Is this thing curable?

It is if any of you turn out to have it, the test should say if it's acute or vaultachronic.

If it's mild or moderate, I'll have you on an antibiotic like doxycycline for a couple weeks and you'll be right as rain.

If it's taken hold and progressed, it's still treatable, but with some concerns to the heart valves or liver.

Let's just see what the tests come back with before we start prescribing treatment.

Marshall, I'm assuming since you didn't want me to talk about this in the open, you also want me to be discreet with blood tests?

Yes, probably for the best.

Yeah, Doc.

Why am I not surprised?

All right, we'll start with Kendra, then one of you 2 buffoons can explain to her why she needs to come in and I'll start blood draws, serology processing, CBC and liver function tests and throw in the PCR testing sense.

You're ruining my day because it's just me doing the draws and testing.

This will take about a day for each person tested.

I understand.

Thank you, Doctor.

Very much.

We'll do everything we can, Marshall.

Don't go worrying too much now.

Working even better than any of our previous forecast models were predicting.

I know Doctor Wainwright that the loss of time from having to ensure the station didn't break up going through the bulk wasn't planned.

However, to call events for a failure would be a massive disservice.

I must admit, leery as I may have been at first, this latest data is turned out to be a wonderful surprise.

You say this is the third verified signal recording, the 3rd.

At this point I am more than confident.

Insane.

Unless there are unforeseen external environmental factors introduced.

The ability to fully track the station.

Is more than confirmed.

Oh indeed, indeed he do.

With this new information, the new information attracting the unique gravimetric resonance frequency from the beacon signature against the local Bane background, we can monitor the stage and monitor it as it moves within the null space.

And it's Bane, not the Batman villain, superimposing the intersection points and time with our reality.

This is just wonderful news to Prendis, in fact.

So when she reappears in a year, we can have a strike force armed and ready to secure the station.

Was a bit surprised to see that recommendation to Beauregard Lowing in the Defense Intelligence Agency coming from you.

Wainwright.

Do you honestly believe it's going to be necessary to take such drastic and direct steps?

I mean, Emory is there.

Oh, don't go getting all soft on us now love.

Remember that Marlowe and its mates have now bullocks things up not once but twice on that station, interfering in classified government operations and jeopardizing national security.

Don't forget saving your life, most likely the rest of ours as well, from stopping you during your psychotic episode.

His uninvited and constant presence no doubt amplifying the effects of the background.

I'm sure had he not buggered his way out of station without an invite, my reaction most likely would have only been mild irritation and not as pronounced.

Oh, tail as old as time, snuck up from behind and sedated by a man with a ventriloquist Dolly.

I mean, we've all been there, right?

Right.

Actually, the best line they'd ever had.

Be that as it may, I must agree with Doctor Lorenz.

Let's not be too hasty with Mr.

Waters.

His familiarity with the station and the artificial intelligence may be a valuable commodity.

He'll never betray the station or Kylie and willingly share data with us.

I think the situation isn't as complicated as you believe, Doctor.

I was waiting until we could all be present and gathered together to share this little tidbit.

I implanted the malware virus while on station.

You did what?

Well, don't everybody rush to thank me all at once.

You mean it was deployed after all?

I was to be consulted before before that plan was implemented.

And if it had been me who initiated the plan, I would have.

Nobody could have predicted what was going to happen.

Dellum made a split second call, but how did you get access get past the AI Trollope?

When beacon three went down, had to be wiped and the software reinitialized, I was the only one left in the room.

Doctor Dauber had left previously and Jocelyn stormed off to find the intruder, leaving behind her bag with the virus on the cell phone.

I have been given the basic access rights to upload the beacon and tie its systems in with the other 3.

When I was given that access, I uploaded it and it was successful.

Oh yeah, that's successful.

Wait, what are we talking about now?

I still think this is an overly aggressive direction.

I'm sorry, I thought the goal of this entire project was not simply locate and secure the station to make sure that we have it the security of the country.

Removing the firewall that AI represents and is in our way is a problem.

I just introduced the solution to that problem and you all want to criticize me.

That doesn't make any.

Sense I for one thing, you did a bang up job, stepped up when I was incapacitated.

Nevertheless, what has been done is done.

I need to notify Beauregard Lowing once we're concluded here.

We'll need to ensure plans going forward to take this factor into consideration.

Your plans to storm the battlements and secure the castle with the strike team you proposed?

Nothing like securing the station for five days with a team of grunts with twitchy trigger fingers and brutish demeanors.

No offense, agent.

Oh, I don't just plan to secure the castle for five days, Doctor.

My proposal is to continue and coordinate Project Atlas in conjunction with the team here at the Monts and Scott from within the Canadian station.

Myself and two teams of specialists will be attending Event 5, where we will take up permanent residence until the station can be stabilized.

Wait, what?

Oh, I love a good plot twist almost as much as I love a cinnamon twist, you know what I mean?

No sugar recording started.

OK, Thank you everybody for showing up quickly.

And I assure you all wouldn't be here right now if this wasn't important.

Like why are we inside the computer aquarium and not the barn?

Wow.

Look at all electronic doohickeys.

These are the things that helped us get to the moon in 69.

A 69, Nice one, blue guy, you know what I'm saying?

Come on now y'all, this here is serious.

Need y'all to listen up?

Now look, First off I need to say how sorry I am.

There was man.

There's no easy way to say this.

Zeke was cleaning up inside the rooms behind the barn and found a viral infectious agent from 1990.

3.

What my mom always said, don't sugarcoat issues, just spill the news and you don't.

Have to pay for cavities.

Later.

Thanks, Tommy.

Oh my.

Wait, are you guys being serious right now?

OK.

What kind of infection are we talking about?

Is it like like the cow?

Does the station have the right medicine?

It's not the cow, Mr.

Ferguson.

Look, everyone, please.

We'll tell you everything we know and what the next steps should be.

Is this, is this why I've been so sick?

We think so.

Maybe.

Look, this is what we know.

Earlier today, Zeke was clean up the storage room behind where the bed space in the barn sits was going to make it ready for another possible usable birth.

Anyway, there was a collapsible foam insulated cooler and inside that cooler was a lab vial from 1993.

It had been damaged and leaked contents out into the bag.

That bag was sitting there in that room since the 90's.

The old pole was set down until today when I found it.

I took it, walked it out about 200 feet and buried that container in the ice, marked it and called Tommy the lawman.

We immediately went to Doctor Tim's.

With pictures of the vials.

We could figure out what it was, and according to her, it's called Q fever, a virus that will make us omnipotent.

Like Q from Star Trek?

No.

Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.

If this gal can take out little Fred, we got to do something like now, guy.

What?

No, he said.

Omnipotent.

Ah no, no, ain't nothing nipping my tip bro.

Gal does that to you, you know.

Well, you all.

Shut the fuck up and let him talk.

Hey doc, it's going to be OK.

How can you possibly know that?

Look, everyone, I know I'm the newest kid in the club here, but maybe we should let the fellas get out the whole story, tell us everything about what Catherine told them, and then we can ask questions once we have that full story.

Would that be OK?

Makes sense to me.

Yeah, same here.

Oh, go ahead, Bass.

You were saying cute fever, right?

Thanks, Sid.

So based on the scientific name of the vial, she said it was also known as Q fever, that it comes from farm animals, livestock and effects human from the excrement that dries and it spreads through the air.

It's not fatal, extremely easy to cure if we have it with the medicine she has on station.

And it's only serious if the exposure was extreme or goes untreated for too long.

So like even if we have it, we take two Advil and then just get on with our bad selves.

What are the symptoms of the virus?

It was muscle and joint pain, general low energy, light headed, feeling sick and vomiting.

The ones I remember.

She wants us all to come in for blood testing.

Even though this virus can't really be spread person to person, we want to avoid a station panic.

So we're going to go in one at a time, and Doctor Tim's run a series of tests on each of us.

We'll start with anybody who's exhibiting any of the symptoms I listed or if you have any other concerns like low immune system.

Well, I know I've had all of those and then some sense we've been using the barn.

So sorry about that Cameron.

I should have searched things more fully before started using it.

I can't fix what's already happened, but I sure as hell make sure there ain't nothing else nasty in there.

I hope you can forgive me.

It's not your fault, Zeke.

You had no way of knowing.

Nobody would suspect a highly dangerous virus would be left in the open in a highly public place in 1993.

You did nothing that needs forgiving.

Anybody else have symptoms?

I'm fine as a fiddle G man.

I don't have the same guts and gizzards I had before becoming a puppet.

Pretty sure I'm Asus like.

What about the big guy?

Hey hey hey German mountain Hi y'all chilling?

The pluck is all good, hop head never get sick or takes on the chin.

All the same I'll have the Moshe check in with the Patti Croker and get the old Hi Hatty Ho.

Maybe have a take a look at the old war going downstairs while I'm at it.

Oh now I ain't never fought no puppy before, but you trying that furry stuff on my girl gorilla?

A No gorilla behind you.

We're going to have words, you know what I'm saying?

Am I the only one curious why a Monson Scott was starring dangerous biological vial agents back in the 90s?

The only one alarmed at the carelessness and disregard of how samples were handled.

It's top of my mind Sydney, trust me.

If we're going to keep using the barn, we'll need to do a complete search of the other rooms to ensure no mortal surprises.

We don't have biohazard suits.

Or tie back gear.

The closest thing we would have is.

Fire gear and respirators that we'll have to do.

Then let's figure out the order of blood testing, tell Doctor Timms and then Mr.

Ferguson I can gear up and do a full search the rest of the barn building.

I tell you right now, boyo, I better not get no gout, you know what I'm saying?

I'm.

Going to go walk kinda over the clinic and get her started with blood work for the blood testing or just put me last.

Last one I have to meet, got it.

Honey, I appreciate the offer, but I want to go by myself.

I'm OK, sort of.

You sure?

I'm sure.

All right, all right.

I'll come see you later tonight after Mr.

Fergus and I are done with the barn.

Recording stopped Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023.

It's 1340 hours.

Supervisory Deputy US Marshall Bass Marlowe.

During routine activities here on station, a discarded vial of what later turned out to be a contagious viral agent was discovered.

The vial label and site decommission date indicate contamination began 1520 years ago.

Despite extreme environmental conditions, which may mitigate exposure, we are treating the sample seriously with research.

Our doctors found that while dangerous, it's not easily passed human to human and thankfully there is a cure.

The nine of us who are potentially exposed are submitting for blood testing, starting with Kendra, who has shown symptoms known to be caused by the virus, for keeping this potential exposure contained within just our group, and Doctor Timms avoiding a potential scare of the rest of the station.

Because of this, Doctor Timms will be conducting all the blood pathology herself, which will take approximately 12 hours per person for the test to fully have results.

She can run some tests in parallel, however, this will take about a week to fully test everybody.

I'm worried about Kendra.

I mean, not just about the potential exposure, but between this, the stress of her new position, late nights preparing for the Senate confirmation hearing, she looks worn out, tired, and this health scare is the last thing she needed.

Any of us need it, really.

Next item?

My nomination has been formally been forwarded to the Senate for a full vote scheduled for a few weeks from now.

That is the last hurdle before being fully sworn in as AUS Marshall.

Not getting my hopes up.

A few weeks here is like a few years anyplace else and a lot can happen.

As expected, the President's chief of staff and his office have distanced themselves, not out of concern for appearances, but because they failed to discredit me.

And now I see the railroading for what it is.

If I thought I was getting immediate interest from the Dreammax drug interdiction, now it's 10 times the requests.

Zeke suggests that I actually take up a few media requests for interviews and all.

Right, like, that's what I need.

More people trying to pick apart my words, twist them into something else entirely.

I told Zeke I'd like to think about it, but honestly, what's the upside?

I give an interview and suddenly I'm either the poster boy for justice or the villain in some political hit piece.

No thank you.

I got enough on my plate.

I'm getting a few emails in from Senate staffers on how events will unfold.

If I'm fully approved, obviously I won't be able to travel to Washington to formally be sworn in.

I can't get my badge and credentials except through the mail, and even then only once the summer season arrives.

Plus I'll need to start selecting some staff that I can assign to.

Supervisor Deputy Marshall Bass Marlow speaking.

Marshall, Marlow Or have I leapt too far ahead of the promotion schedule?

Deputy Marshall would be preferred.

I'm sorry, may I ask who this is?

I'm responding to that charming little breadcrumb you left in the Poughkeepsie Journal.

To be candid, I wasn't entirely convinced it was you until I heard your voice.

Very distinctive.

Marshall Goodwin, God rest him, assured me you'd come knocking him if his tenure ended prematurely, shall we say.

Mr.

Gable.

Just Gable Wolf, too.

Titles are such cumbersome little things, don't you think?

Oh, and congratulations are in order.

That performance at a judiciary hearing.

Are you pure wet around Hawks and his collection of misfits?

Positively balletic.

I didn't think you'd actually we should be calling it.

I have so many questions.

We'll need to be brief.

I think this is a reconnaissance of sorts.

I need to know just how porous our line really is down there on the eyes.

So why don't we dispense with the niceties?

And you ask me the one question that is keeping.

You awake at.

Night.

Who killed Charlie and Jenna Goodwin?

The.

Whispers I still hear drifting around Langley on the Pentagon.

First suspect our dear Jocelyn follower Dia.

An obvious guess, Which is precisely why I dismissed it.

Jocelyn, bless her, a PrettyLittleThing isn't built for this sort of intimacy, we say.

No, No, the fingerprints were far more subtle.

I traced to the Ministry of State Security Beijing's long arm and their handiwork was unmistakable.

Same elegant little signatures they left behind in Taiwan.

Australia approved, incidentally, by Chang Wanjing himself, who was promptly rewarded with promotion by President Xi Charming.

Isn't it murder as a career advancement?

So was the Chinese government that killed him and Janet.

Yes.

If intelligence knows this, then what are they doing about?

It officially the American response has been studied Silence.

Unofficially, President Campbell has found it terribly useful for burnishing his isolationist credentials.

Meanwhile, shadow players have been feasting on the fallout.

The unfortunate vice president of Beauregard, Lawrence, suddenly revealed as a traitor.

My evidence so conveniently discovered his mind has been gift draft.

Let me guess by DARPA?

Oh.

Deputy to impress me, Yes.

DARPA indeed.

Avery Maddox #2 in the building, but number one in ambition, I'd wager.

My last class of Chateau Margot, he arranged that little framing exercise.

Speaking of which, Monsieur, come on.

Peace.

Divorce, mercy.

Madeline Dantes, Dr.

Wainwright's predecessor and director of research and development, military technologies, now chief of operations inside of BOLO.

Which tells me Goodwin did pass along the materials I entrusted to him.

Wonderful.

Saves me the tedium of exciting years worth of unpleasant revelations.

What is it you're after?

Gable, I'll give all that information to Chuck.

Why reach out to me after I sent that information to Poughkeepsie Journal?

What's your goal in all of this?

What do I want, my dear man?

I'm astonished you even have to ask.

I want the edifice to crumble the Bolo Empire, Tarpis, more unsavory Cabal's, and the corrupt factions in Washington who treat the Constitution like a cocktail napkin.

That's why I carry the charm and distinction of shoot on site order.

Too many secrets, too many truths, and they fear what I'll do with them and their right to.

Section 3093 is a shoot on site.

Order, Deputy, Continue to exceed my expectations.

Section 3093.

Indeed.

Yes.

But alas, I must cut the short turtle.

Delightful rendezvous here.

I need to see whether anyone else's eavesdropping on this intimate technique tech before I risk another.

That's a bit presumptive.

How can you be sure?

I'll reach out again.

Oh, you.

Call again and you need Tesla's journal desperately.

Without.

It the likes of Dante's and Maddox will have free reign and his feet would have it.

I know it's still down there somewhere in that frozen expanse of Antarctica.

So I should use the same method next time to contact you, no?

No, next time use legal notice using the words Lyon County School District Lyon with AY, mind you.

Set the question deadline to April first.

Provide the number of the Marshall's desk in New York.

That'll be enough for me.

One last thing.

Go ahead.

Since your triumphant judiciary hearing, your name has become something of a shiny bobble within the intelligence community.

Twice as bright, but twice as tempting.

You do know the phrase head on a swivel?

Religiously.

Wonderful, make it your daily prayer.

Until next time, Deputy.

I don't have enough on my plate already.

I'm telling you, my boys have been more itchy than.

Normal since this afternoon.

When you said?

We were exposed.

Well, what?

If this cute crap makes me like.

Important or whatnot.

That's important.

Itchy testicles and impotence wasn't even symptoms of the virus.

You're fine, Mr.

Ferguson.

It's all in your head.

Just keep.

Focused here.

OK, we're almost done.

Oh.

Man, I got the gout, man, I can feel.

It.

I know it.

What if little Freddy can't salute no more?

You know what?

I'm saying you'll be fine.

When do you go in for testing?

Catherine has.

Me in the day after tomorrow.

After Christie Good, I don't have to hear about you misrepresenting what gout is anymore after that.

Is that box clear?

Yeah, yes.

Nothing but nerd.

Stuff.

Paper bag, garbage scribbles.

What the hell is even algebra?

Documents.

Files.

Looks like some lab.

Tools, various items, nothing hazardous.

What's always bothered me is that the old.

Pole structure.

Was said to have been fully dismantled and taken off the station right as the new station was being opened.

Hey, don't look at me, boss.

I've only been down here a year longer than you.

I mean, yeah, a small handful of us knew she was still out here, but until your little secret.

Club was formed.

Nobody gave 2 shits.

About this place, it's always.

Been off limits just like my pool after Labor Day last.

Box.

OK.

We have packaging materials, Bluetooth device disconnected.

Looks like whatever the bag was that Zeke found, it was the only vial of nasty stuff.

Yeah, Even so, unless you all find out the world is ending maybe a while before I want to come on back out here, you know I don't need no sores of the gout on Little Freddy.

Mr.

Ferguson, your grasp of the here and now is perplexing to say the hey, check that out.

What, we we suit him back up?

Man, I just took this freaking thing off.

Man, no, no, no, not that nothing bad look.

Look at the artwork on the wall.

It's a frame chart or no?

It's a map.

No, it's, it's 2 maps side by side.

The left is obviously a Munson Scott region.

There's us, the new station, the arches.

Here's where the Dome was and where we are now.

The dark sector, clear sector goes out beyond Espresso, 8 kilometres and and even further.

They jotted down land features, existing crevasses, points of interest.

Oh shit, look, geology, What a thrill boss.

Can we go now?

Do I got to pretend I'm in the freaking map club still?

The other side, well, it's absolutely McMurdo well mud town back over 10 years ago, but it has the same general area around all whoa.

I wish you'd stop getting surprised over there, boss, you're making me antsy.

No.

Look, both of these are signed and dated.

By whom, I'm guessing is the person who drew them.

S Luke Kasich, January 2008.

OK, it's is he like the Steve Jobs, a map drawing or something?

No.

Think back, Mr.

Ferguson, from the files my father-in-law left me about Tesla's journal.

S Luke Kasich, Doctor Steven Lukasik, the last person we know had their journals in his hands.

January 2008, the month the new station was dedicated.

This can't be a coincidence.

This has to be why the old pole was left partially standing so somebody would find this.

Hey, help me out here.

I'm moving this thing back into our barn area.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Give me a second here, boss.

My lights flickering.

You know, I think this lighting may have the gout too.

So now my light is acting up.

Let's get this thing down and head back.

Rodney.

First.

Oh yeah boy, I've been waiting for this moment.

It's payback time.

You suck a punching, fruit pie loving dead guy.

Fred No.

But I won't be the last.

You will suffer, Doctor.

Rodney, can you understand me?

I ain't afraid.

No ghost man, not even one who punches like a girl, float like a Bruin, sting like my fist.

Seriously, Mr.

Ferguson, Doctor Rodney's vengeful spirit appears and you want to slug him for payback?

Him being murdered wasn't enough.

Hey, it's not my fault he got all corpsified.

Punk ass died before I got my due.

I still owe him a punch to the face now.

We had beef before he got ganged.

We still got beef after.

I'm getting my payback, you know what I'm saying?

Just help me bring this frame down to the barn.

I'm going to study it more.

Yeah, yeah, I'm coming.

I'm coming.

Hey boss, do you think one of them science dogs down there knows how to like, punch a ghost right in the see true balls?

I don't just.

We'll figure that out later, Mr.

Ferguson.

Just grab the other side, please.

God damn right.

We're going to figure that out later.

Yes son.

Little punk better start trans little ghost ass off now because next time I see him I'm going to break my foot off and inspect the sphincter, OK?

Just pivot to the left there.

Punch him right in the poltergeist, Pekka.

Watch your right.

Speed bag that little boogeyman Ballberg so hard.

But that we'll deal with this together and it's important to remember what Doctor Temps told us it's curable even if any of us did contract it.

I know all that sweetie, I just want to start feeling better regardless of how it happens.

If that's what the antibiotic she has, then so be it.

I've been on pins and needles yesterday since she started testing.

Evening all is Doctor Timms in.

She should be in her office.

Thank you.

Come in, Doctor Timms.

Come in, Doctor Jennings.

Oh, he brought the Deputy Marshall with you.

Well, you 2 come on inside and have a seat.

Please tell me the news is all good.

The news is inconclusive for the moment.

What?

I don't to understand.

I ran the PCR test myself and the first one came back negative for Cocciola Bernetti, but only one of the three markers could be found.

IS1111 COM 1 and ICD.

Your first Test came back with only the ICD present.

If it had been any of the other two, I'd be confident you had the virus.

Those two are unique to Q fever.

ICD is simply an additional confirmatory marker.

It's common with bacterial infections such as E coli or salmonella.

I wanted to make sure it wasn't cross contamination of the blood or equipment, so I started the sample early for Thomas.

His test came back negative for any of the markers so I could rule that out.

I ran a second test with the sample of Kendra's blood I had leftover and stored.

This time it came back with clear ICD as the first Test, but this time I saw extremely weak

results in the IS 11:11.

So again, and to put it into the deputies lingo, Q fever is a subject of interest, but it's not a strong suspect yet.

So what do we do now?

Deputy Kendra is the patient at the moment.

I need to be addressing her, not you.

I know your heart is in the right place lad, but please cork your hole for now Kendra.

So we've run a third test.

My first thought was to go ahead and get you on the Dockley cycling now until I'm more confident.

I don't want to be putting you on more antibiotics if there isn't a bacteria to fight.

That would just be a bad idea all around and a waste of our resources.

The decision is up to you, but what I'd recommend is doing a full physical exam including another round of testing.

Yes, because of the 1st 2 results.

I'd normally suggest we do an IFA after but we're not set up for that here.

What's IFA?

Indirect immunofluorescence to say it's a gold standard.

The Cadillac of blood testing.

It is also the most definitive test.

That would absolutely tell us one way or the other.

Unfortunately, this facility doesn't have the right equipment.

What we can do, and the equipment I do have, is a high res digital fluorescent microscope.

With another sample I can capture and transmit the image of the results.

We'd need to set up familiar and trained technicians to handle and analyze the images and data transmitted or it's known as telepathology.

I'd also have to get Mr.

Bustamante to fully dedicate a Passover of Lifeline 8 satellite to this test.

Satellite 8 has the slowest pass and longest data transmission of four hours home.

Need every bit of that.

How long will it take to have all this set up and get the results back?

We can start the exam right now, do all the blood testing and panel screens.

Today.

I'll need to call into the NSF to find and arrange a qualified technician who can be on standby to perform the testing.

Normally this would take two to three weeks to arrange, but with the NSF we should be able to cut that time down to a week, maybe 5 days.

5 days.

Given where we are and the limitations on getting here, I think you'd be thanking your lucky stars that it's only 5 days.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, Doctor.

You're right, Kendra.

Let's get started.

I'll take you over to exam one, Deputy.

You'll excuse us, won't you?

Of course, Meet you in the galley afterwards, sweetheart.

Bass.

Yes.

I love you.

I love you too, sweetheart, but let's keep positive thoughts here, OK?

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