The coming of Atkinson so early in the morning is not the only thing that makes Victor puzzled. That old man even asks Victor a chance to talk in private, which leads Victor to tell Judy to leave the office for a while.From this point, Victor begins to realize Atkinson isn’t intending to talk about business with him.“So, you have received a message from Viona?” Victor asks with a bit of a smile.But somehow, his question makes Atkinson a bit puzzled now. “What message?” he asks with so much curiosity.He then gets a phone call from Viona. But knowing that Atkinson is already in Victor’s office, Viona cancels her intention to share the information regarding that serial killer to him, and tells him to just ask Victor directly.Coincidently, Atkinson himself visits Victor also to confirm about that issue too. He only learned it by himself last night from the news. And somehow, he feels like he needs to talk about it with Victor.“So, you already know that I’m Charles’ son?” asks Victor
That old man keeps mumbling with shaking lips, as he keeps trying to call his beloved adopted son. Dorothy also finds it hard to go to sleep when her son is not at home. “How is it?” she asks. “He isn’t picking up the phone,” replies Atkinson. At the moment, Lucas himself has reached Indianapolis and is heading back home now. For some reason, he looks so reluctant to pick up the phone call from Atkinson. It’s like he already knows what kind of sermons he is going to get from that old man. However, when Carter Phillips calls him, only then is he willing to pick up the phone. But Carter Phillips doesn’t call him for something good. [We have an issue here] “What happened?” [Another man down! It’s Cayson] “Is he dead? [Not yet. But we can’t let him stay here for too long] “Shiiit!” He turns around, and cancels his intention to go back home. He has no other choice but to visit his pharmacy factory. He makes another call, asking the transporters back to work to dispose of that de
That’s when Lucas begins to think about that worst scenario. He starts to see the possibilities that he might have been conned this whole time. Several people have died so far. What if the issue about the incoming pandemic was just a lie, and he had only been scammed to buy that virus specimen from those two Asian guys. His face looks so pale to think about how fuck up his situation would be if what Mr. Carter said was right. And that sudden change of his facial expression only makes Carter realize that Lucas might have never given any thought about that possibility this far. “Our society has adapted quite well from our past experience with Covid-19. Doing the same thing to force people to buy vaccines is a risky game for them. Have you given any thought about that?” Mr. Carter emphasizes with his low and deep hoarse voice. “But the possibility is still there,” Lucas argues. “What if they leak the virus and start the pandemic?” “There could never be another pandemic! They’ve schem
Two men inside the monitoring room are a bit shocked because of Atkinson’s arrival. They missed it, since they have been too occupied with the situation inside that particular lab. Mr. Carter can only hold his head with a wrinkled face. The more with Lucas who never expected that his dad would appear right in the worst situation. Now, there’s nothing he can do when Atkinson already witnessed everything. Atkinson approaches the glass door of the lab without any safety. It just so happens that Mr. Carter appears and then rushes to prevent him from entering that lab. “No, Atkinson! You can’t enter that lab?” “Mr. Carter? You? What are you doing here with my son?” asks Atkinson, still with his pale face. Carter tries to explain it to him. Even thought Atkinson is looking like he is following Mr. Carter’s explanation, none of those words come to his head. Atkinson is so blank. He feels like his entire realm has deteriorated. When he turns his face away, he finds Lucas already out of t
But then, something sinister suddenly crosses his mind. He immediately heads to his room on the second floor, and leaves his mom with her confusion.He makes a call to Elijah Miller. It just so happens that Elijah is still awake at the moment, and he doesn’t need to wait for too long.“About the plan you were talking about before, can you still use it?”[Is it that man again?]“Yes. I want him to disappear. I don’t care if you have to kill the two of them. Just make that man leave Indiana as soon as possible.”[Did something happen?]“I just killed my dad. He had seen me right when I killed a man who had been infected by the virus. I had no choice.”[Wooo, hey, hey! Hold on. Slow it down! Seriously? You killed your dad?]“Hey, listen! It just so happened that my dad left the house right after he got a strange call from Victor William. I want you to make him disappear. You get me?”[I get it. I understand what you are trying to do. I’ll call them immediately. I believe they are still i
Elsewhere in Canada, some strangers are lurking in the woods approaching Emma’s house. Two of them are actually the two men that Emma met in the airport right after she left Indiana.It’s not clear what these people’s intentions are. But it seems like the house is completely empty at the moment. Soon after making sure about the condition of that house, one of them makes a phone call.“Too bad! There’s no one in the house!”[Are you sure it’s her house?]“Of course. We know who her dad is. Her dad is the Mayor here. It’s just that the house is empty. They could just leave on a vacation. What now? We can just come back here later.”[No, forget about it! There’s no point if you do it later. Just abandon the mission]“But, man! You still have to pay me. I can’t just tell my men back home empty-handed.”[Just wait for my call. Your job is not entirely canceled yet. There are still you and your men need to do]Meanwhile, the transporters who take Cayson and Atkinson’s dead bodies have just
He glances a bit at Judy who is still so engrossed with her phone. He feels like there’s no way he can tell her about that sad news at the moment.He knows that Judy has moved on from her sadness for losing Emma. He thinks that she doesn’t need to learn that news if it is only to break her heart.A moment later, another notification tone occurs in his mobile phone. It is the message consisting of the joke that Judy has just created.It’s a funny one. But it’s not enough to force him to laugh. But then, he turns his face to Judy, and shows her a fake silly smile.“Should I show it to Mr. Gambino?” he asks with a childish manner.“N, no! Don’t!”But Victor just leaves the office to hide his sorrow from Judy. “Please stay here! I’m going to leave for a while!”In the end, he calls Chappy, telling him to prepare the car to leave the office. Without giving any serious thought about the validity of that message, he immediately looks for a flight ticket to Canada.On the other hand, Lucas is
Dorothy is never a strong woman to begin with. She isn’t even able to hear the entire explanation from the police. She has already lost consciousness since the police said about the death of her husband.She is now swaying as she begins to fall. But luckily, the other police officer, a female, manages to hold Dorothy before she falls. She then turns her face to her partner by showing an uninspired face.“What?” he asks.“How could you just spew everything like you are talking to a bot? Think about her feelings, damn it!”Later, when Dorothy regains her consciousness, she finds Lucas already there serving those two officers with a serious conversation. And smoothly, Lucas averts the police’s attention to Victor, by bringing up the story about the weird phone call Atkinson received last night.“I’ve already filed a report for the disappearance of my dad. But the police said that I have to wait for 2 days before filing a report for a missing person. Now look at what had happened to my da