"{\pos(192,230)}Cover the eye that we didn't treat." "What do you see?" " Nothing." " Gonna get your optic nerves to grow." "I don't know if that eye can take another procedure." " We could do the other eye." " And risk going blind in both of them?" "{\pos(192,230)}They looked everywhere." "Looks like one living, 10 dead, 13 missing." "We need NorBAC to answer 3 questions." "Is this outbreak contagious?" "What's the cause?" "And is it safe to evacuate?" "What happened to your crew?" " I don't know." " What kind of cargo?" "It's coltan." "It's used in cell phones, TVs, DVD players." "They unloaded all this stuff in Miami?" "1.3 million kilos onboard, now being dispersed on trucks." "I found the remnants of an insect's skin under the fingernail scrapings." "We might have a variant on the Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever." "CCHF is tick-borne." "No ticks were found." " Are they tick wounds?" " I don't know what these are." " That's not good." " No." " Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever?" " A variant." " What kind?" " It killed a boatload of sailors and it doesn't respond to Ribavirin in vitro." "Okay." "I need to talk with my tropical medicine people." " Hey." " Hey." "How is he?" "He's not presenting any symptoms yet." "I cut 3 maggots out of him." "Oh, nice." "Any idea about the species?" "I did a quick database check." "But so many of them look alike." " U of T entomology?" " I sent them over." "Okay." "Any books you've been wanting to read?" "They should be putting me on hemodynamic support," "ECG, monitoring fluid balances, electrolyte levels..." "I'll make sure it's all taken care of." " We'll test the blood and the insect." " Just try to relax." "So how'd he get bitten?" "He was wearing a hazmat suit." "Maybe above deck before he put it on." "Fuck, there's another one!" "Watch out!" " What was he doing up there?" " Take pictures and let's get out." "Check his suit when you get back to the lab." "Yeah, okay." "ReGenesis 3x12 Jacobson's Organ" "Subtitles Team NorBAC" "Synchro Dapitch666, Bbsiocnarf, Linwelin" "Version BIO 1.0" "{\pos(150,258)}Shit." "{\pos(250,258)}Hey, it's Mayko." "My computer just crashed." "{\pos(150,258)}Could you take a look at it for me?" "{\pos(150,258)}Okay, thanks." "Maggot ID as Dermatobia hominis, human botfly." "What?" "Hell!" "I don't know." "Juice out of the wall is clean." "Power supply is ticking." "Well, what..." "I mean, what is it then?" " Could it be a virus maybe?" " I don't think so." " I enhanced our firewall last month." " That explains it." "Rachel called and asked about Carlos's blood." "I sent the data to the UHN." "They're going to run it for me." "Look, do you mind if I use your computer to run some research on these maggots?" "No, as long as you don't kill it." "She's a bit of a Dr. Kevorkian with computers around here." "Funny." "I knew a girl blew two computers in one day." "Turned out to be her braces." "David?" "Yeah, Bob?" " Thanks for letting me stay here." " No problem." " Do you mind if I keep the light on?" " Go for it." " It's just a habit." " Sure." "David?" "Yeah, Bob." " I think I lost my toothbrush." " It's okay." "I've got an extra one." "David." "Go to sleep, Bob." " Okay." "Good night." " Good night." "Come on, Mayko." "How could you have all those computers go wrong on you?" "God, I've had, like, two hours of sleep." "Please don't start on me, too." " All right, sorry." " You're lucky, 'cause I have good news." " It's a botfly maggot." " Botfly?" "This is actually pretty cool." "See, a botfly wants to lay its eggs in you." "But it actually uses another insect to do the dirty work." "In Africa, it likes to use ticks." "So it lays its eggs on the tick's legs." " Okay." " And when the tick lands on a person, botfly eggs can actually sense that person's body heat and this cues the botfly eggs to hatch." "And then out comes this tiny larva." " What, that fast?" " Yeah, that fast." "So the larva drops off the tick's legs, onto the person, and then it burrows under the skin" " where it begins to grow." " Into a maggot, I get it." "Maggot turns into a boil." "As it grows, the person goes crazy with itching, scratches off the boil, out pops a big, juicy maggot." "What about the hemorrhagic fever?" "It must have come the old-fashioned way." "From a tick bite." " In Africa?" " Yeah, in Africa." "Because there were no ticks on the boat, right?" "Right." "What about Carlos?" "Well, no ticks on the boat so... the botflies needed some other insect to transport the eggs." "So it could have been a good old American housefly?" "Plenty of those on board." "What about Carlos's blood work?" "I haven't heard back yet, but I'll ask Rachel{\ when I see her}." "Never mind, I'll do it." "Hey, wait." "Where are you?" "Rachel." " Carlos's blood?" " Just got the results." "Oh, and those hazmat suits?" "Carlos had a 3-centimeter rip under his left arm." "Big door for a fly." " This had better be good news." " No hemorrhagic fever." "Yes!" "Gracias a Dios." "You were lucky." " What?" "I still work for you." " Nice." "Get your ass in here." " Hey, we have to go." "Where's Bob?" " I rode my bike." " Thought you were picking him up." " You said you were." " I didn't." " You did!" " Let's just go get him." " You're losing it, Sandström." "How you doing, Bob?" " Just thinking." " About what?" "When we first came to Canada, my mother kept all the lights off at night." "She and I used to sit in the kitchen with this little green lamp." "We would read by it... between us." "I learned English and then I taught it to her." " What was your father doing?" " Working, working." "I only ever saw him on weekends." "Bob, are you ready?" "Very." "Good luck." "Need you to keep still." "When I got my own apartment, I took the lamp with me." "I still read by it." "Need you to keep your eyes closed." "Okay." "Hang on there." "Okay." "All right, Bob." "You can open them." "I can see." "A little bit." "I mean, I think it's good." "How good?" "Better than before my accident." "I think." "I love your perfume." "Thank you." " Need you to look at this light here." " Okay." "Follow it." "Good." " How's it look?" " Left." "Good, good." "All right." "See that chart over there?" "Cover your eye." "Can you read it for me?" "F, E, L, O, P, Z, D." "That's the seventh line down." "25/20." "I can see, David." " Are you ready?" " Whenever you are." " I need to speak to David." " Hey, how's Bob?" "Better than perfect vision in the treated eye." " He's doing terrific." " That's fantastic." "We left him at David's." "He needs to chill and relax." "But he's so happy." " He's calling his relatives." " What great, great news." " Mayko, do you have a second?" " I'll see you later." "Oh, David." "I just got a call from the New York Stock Exchange." "They're having problems with their computers." " Why us?" " It's been a few weeks" " it's starting to spread." " Send it to the ATF lab or somewhere." "They did." "They sent it to Livermore." "It's covered by an organic slime." " Like a biofilm?" " Exactly." " It's all over the main circuit board." " What kind of biofilm?" "I guess that's why they're calling us in." "Alright." "Have them send it up in a bio-bag." "We got enough computer problems of our own." "It's already here." "Carlos is looking at it." "Well, thanks for keeping me in the loop." "You're welcome." "Bob's optic nerve." "What we want is for that nerve to grow." "Frankly, we're trying to drive a car with a brake on." "We produce an siRNA, which effectively eliminates the brake." "One key will be fine." "Thanks." "You're getting very good at this." "What took you so long?" "Traffic." " How are you, Jonny?" " Good." "I'm good." "Here are your husband's files." " You have something?" " Yeah." "Yeah." "I've got boxes full of dead ends." "What?" "I know that this is not what you wanted to hear." "A month ago, you told me that everything looked promising." "And every time I was on to something, suddenly it just curved into darkness." "Your husband, I mean, this guy..." "This guy knows how to cover his tracks." "You told me you could uncover them." "I didn't say that I could walk on water." "So you're telling me that you have nothing?" "Nothing that's admissible in court, nothing that the Justice Department's" " gonna find of any interest." " What about the Sinatra virus?" "I fed you all that dirt that said he was steering it towards Kay Pharmaceuticals." "You know what they did?" "They paid him cash, and cash can be put into... a gym bag." "Cash can be put into a safety deposit box." "I mean, maybe he stashed it in the Caymans." "I..." "Rachel..." "I've been doing this for you for 6 months and I have found nothing." "What the fuck?" "I mean..." "Turn it over to the FBI." "What the hell is going on?" "This is all very exciting, but we're not out of the woods yet." "We gotta do exactly what Dr. Turnbull says." " I can't just sit here." " Just put on your iPod and zone out." " Impossible." " You spend half your time zoned out." "I don't know how to put this nicely," " but it smells in here." " I'll open a window." "You'll have to get rid of that couch." "Why?" "There are about 50 different kinds of perfume embedded in the cushions." " Really." " David." "I'm underestimating." "You never used to complain about the perfume on my couch before." " I guess I have too much time." " I'll move the couch." "I'll put a cover on it." "But if you cooperate, I'll cook you something special." "Seafood." "I can smell it." "It's in the fridge." "Unidentified 3-day-old crustacean." "No thanks." "What?" "David, we have electron microscope images of the biofilm." "And?" "You should take a look at this." "Okay, first thing tomorrow morning." "No, I mean like right now." "Why, what is it?" "The bacterium from the New York Stock Exchange." " I've never seen anything like this." " I'll be right in." "What the fuck's going on with the lights?" "Don't know." "I was in the middle of doing an EM scan when the power went down." " Backup generator kick in okay?" " Yeah, exactly as it should have." "Okay." "So." "Here is the surface of the circuit board." "That's the bacteria that forms the biofilm?" "Take a look at them when we zoom in." "See, they all seem to be oriented in exactly the same direction." " Like they're marching in formation." " Precisely." "Working together to gum up the circuit board." "As if programmed." "Okay, let's get Rachel back in here, see if we can identify this crud." "Hey, Bob." "What are you working on?" "Ah, some kind of magnetic..." " What are you doing here?" " I'm back." "I'm ready for work." "David, I'm fine." "I know I am." "I want to have the other eye done." "Okay, hold on a second." " Let's just make sure that..." " David, I am sure." "Everything has worked perfectly." "I wanna have the other eye done." " Okay." "Welcome back." " Thank you." "What do you know about magnetic bacteria?" " Which ones?" " Any ones." "Well, they've only been studied for a couple of years." "But they're these very esoteric microorganisms that align themselves with the Earth's magnetic field." "Family:" "Nitrospiraceae, Genus:" "Magnetobacterium." "They're gram-negative proteobacteria that can live in anoxic sediments." "Magnetobacterium?" "Yeah." "Probably only a handful of scientists have even seen them." "So we're among the chosen few." "What do they do?" "They have magnetosomes inside of them which are made of iron crystals." "And that's the part that's attracted to magnetic fields." "The world's smallest compasses?" "Capacitors store electrical charges on circuit boards." "And that charge means there's also a magnetic field there." "Like lighthouses sending out a beacon to these things." "They follow the beacon back to the lighthouse..." " And they burn it down." " So how are they burning it down?" "Well, the bacteria does produce an extra-cellular polysaccharide." "It's a gluey-like slime that holds the biofilm together." "The biofilm then coats the circuit board..." "The circuit board short-circuits." "Brilliant." " There are some troubling details." " Like what?" "Magnetic bacteria can only exist in an anaerobic environment." "Oxygen kills them." "So they should be dead." "Here's what we do." "Rachel, you figure out how they're surviving in oxygen." "Bob, you figure out what they're eating." "Carlos, Mayko, extermination." "Okay, what the fuck is going on around here?" "Maybe the biofilm has contaminated NorBAC." "Is that a stupid idea?" "Oh, shit." "Everybody back up your hard drives." "Okay, so this is a circuit board that IT pulled out of your computer, Mayko." "So the circuit boards here at NorBAC and the ones at the New York Stock Exchange are both being attacked by the same magnetobacteria." "But how did it end up here?" "Maybe the magnetobacteria from New York contaminated us?" "That's not possible." "My computer crashed before the circuit boards got here." "This is just coincidence?" "No, I'd say that more than just Mayko's computers are infected by now." "I'll get on Maintenance and get them to change all our circuit boards." "We just need to figure out a connection between us and the NY Stock Exchange." "Maybe their common supplier, product, software." " I'll get on it." " I need the name of every lab working with magnetobacteria." "Maybe somebody there can help us." "I should've gone into law." " David." " Yeah." "We did tests within the lab." "Circuit boards in the ventilation system... infected." " There goes my BlackBerry." " I've got something on how it survives." "A little audiovisual aid." "But we better do it quick." "All right." "This is the sequence of the magnetobacteria's DNA." "This is the area that controls sensitivity to oxygen." " Somebody fuck with it?" " They've added superoxide dismutase, catalase and peroxidase." "All the enzymes needed to survive in oxygen." "Shit." "Who's working on this?" "There's 4 U.S. labs:" "Cat's Research, New Age Metallurgy," "Northern Sky Laboratories and KMM Industries." "All of them are above board." "Mayko's contacting them." " Think I found something interesting." " What?" "I did an analysis on all the substances found in a capacitor." "The key components, aluminum," " silicon, copper, gold, mica..." " Just tell me what you got, Bob." "Tantalum." "Tantalum?" " And where do you get tantalum?" " It's refined from ore." "Coltan." "What the sailors infected with that hemorrhagic were hauling." "All roads lead to Africa." " See?" "I told you it was interesting." " 1.3 million kilos smuggled out of the Congo basin." "Now we got a bug that's attracted to tantalum capacitors." "What the fuck?" "I'm gonna keep working on the magnetobacterium." "We gotta kill it." " I'll help you." " Wes, you work with Mayko." "Anything on those companies." "Just leave that." " I wanna take a closer look." " Sure." "Wes." " You have a minute?" " Yeah, of course." "What do you need?" "When you were talking about those labs, dealing with magnetobacteria," " something twigged for me." " What?" "Years ago, Carl worked for a drilling company called Ursa Minor Drilling." "Which I remember because it's a constellation." "The Little Dipper." "But also because its sister company's name is a play on where it can be seen." "Northern Sky Laboratories." "Magnetobacteria." "Exactly." "So Ursa Minor had retained Carl as a lobbyist to get permission to drill in this very environmentally sensitive area of the Boreal Shield in Manitoba." "I wonder what they were drilling for." "Three guesses." "First two don't count." "Tantalum." "I'm gonna keep working on the magnetobacterium, see if we can kill it." " Yeah, I'll help you." " Wes, work with Mayko." "Anything on those companies." "Just leave that." " I wanna take a closer look." " Sure." "Wes." " You have a minute?" " Yeah, of course." "What do you need?" "What's up, Bob?" "It's Rachel." " Rachel?" "What about her?" " She's scared or excited or..." " something." " What're you talking about?" "When she walked by me, I could just tell." "Well, we're all pretty hopped up right now." "We have to bring David in on this." " And I think it's a bad idea." " Bad idea to bring me in on what?" "Come on, Rachel." "You just finished telling Wes I should get involved, so..." "Carl Riddlemeyer on the take?" "We think that Riddlemeyer is siphoning off data from NorBAC for high-tech firms and collecting a finder's fee." " Why am I just hearing about it now?" " We wanted to catch him with his hand in the cookie jar, not smack him over the head." "How'd you get onto him?" "I knew he was hiding money from me from when we did the divorce settlement," " and one thing led to another." " Who else is in on it?" " That's what we're trying to find out." " I hired a forensic accountant." "He's been going through Carl's transactions, trying to link him to something." "He came up with these leads, but so far none have panned out." "And then this tantalum thing came up." "And we think Carl may be running a scam" " to manipulate the market." " Carl doesn't know we've made the connection, so hopefully he hasn't covered his tracks." "And the evidence may still be in these files." "Weston Field." "Yeah, thanks." "Riddlemeyer's flying back this afternoon." " Good timing." " All right, best behaviour, David." "Actually, I think it's time you threw a match into Carl's gas tank." "This circuit board is from the mainframe at LAX air traffic control." "Three other major airports were hit." "Philadelphia, Chicago and Seattle." "All of them infected with magnetobacteria?" "If they were, it represents a major escalation." "Thousands of people were caught midair." "We just narrowly averted a catastrophe." " Have you found a way to kill it?" " Not just yet." "Well, how about the way it spread?" "That's still unclear as well, but we're working on it." "Okay, well, who's behind it?" "Any idea?" "Now that is an interesting question." " You know who it is?" " No." "But we have found some clues." "Such as?" "Have you ever heard of tantalum?" "It's to do with electronics." "Capacitors." "So you know it's a highly prized mineral." "I do have some knowledge of the mining industry." "Well, the thing is, tantalum is derived from coltan." "When you check your records, you'll see we were just dealing with an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever onboard a freighter" " that was just loaded with coltan." " I fail to see the connection." "With all this magnetobacteria running around fucking up tantalum capacitors, there's gonna be a panic and the market for raw coltan is going to skyrocket." "Whoever's sitting on a supply is looking to make a killing." "That shipment alone could be worth billions." "And it's out there somewhere, on a fleet of 18-wheelers." "It's just a matter of time till we track it down." "Yeah so, to answer your question, no, we don't know who would engineer the magnetobacteria yet." "But what we do have is a damn good motive." " Money." " Keep me posted." "Sure." "Maybe you could look into this for us." "I mean, get Washington to put a couple of spooks on it." "Sure." "You know, Carl, whoever is behind this is a real fuckhead." "He better pray that we can figure out how to shut this thing down." "Because if we can't, there won't be a single fucking toy left for him to spend his billions on." "You don't think I'm a fuckhead, do you, David?" "Of course not, Carl." "I think you're king of the fuckheads." "And to recap our top story, planes are grounded in Los Angeles, Chicago," "Philadelphia and Denver as engineers search for answers as to what caused flight navigation systems to crash." " It's spreading." " Yeah, I know." "I heard Wall Street spent millions replacing circuit boards." " What's wrong?" " What do you mean?" "You're frightened." "Yeah, actually." "So what's up?" "I don't know." "It's probably none of my business." "Bob, no." "I just..." "I was thinking, you know, what if these bacteria got into the mainframe at some nuclear power station?" "That's all." " That is scary." " Yeah." "And happy?" " What?" " Why are you happy?" "I'm just glad you're back." "That's nice." " Hello, Mr. Riddlemeyer." " Dr. Melnikov." "Dr. Tran." " He was terrified." " I didn't get that impression." "It was obvious to me." "Thanks." "We need to talk." "David?" "That match you threw into Riddlemeyer's gas tank?" "Looks like it just went off." "Come on." "See?" " Sometimes it pays to play with fire." " As close as I can figure," "Riddlemeyer came out of your office, got into an elevator, placed a phone call." "Really?" "So the question is did he make it to somebody who fits into all this?" " Exactly." "You remember Kayne?" " Oh, yeah." "You traced those smallpox calls for us." "How you doing?" "Good, thanks." "Kayne has tapped into all of Riddlemeyer's outgoing phone calls." " Take a look at this." " Bing-fucking-o." " What's your next step?" " I'm gonna look at these files." "Rachel's gonna set something up." "Okay." "Keep me informed." "And remember, nobody plays hero." " Got a minute?" " For you?" "So I've been in contact with four labs working with magnetobacteria." "They are forwarding a list of anyone they think could be considered" " an individual of interest." " CC Wes anything from Northern Sky." "Wes." "Why?" "It's need-to-know, and right now you don't." "Okay, fine." "I'm sorry." "Just trust me on this." "I'll explain later." "Anyway, there's something else." "I need to talk to you about Bob." "Have you noticed anything odd about his behaviour?" " Every time we talk." " No, I mean like strange-strange." "Okay." "Bob seemed to know what I was feeling." " Sounds like love." " I'm serious." "I know it sounds stupid," " it's like he could read my emotions." " He has Asperger's," "Mayko." "I mean, empathy isn't something his brain processes." "Maybe it does now." "You'd think all this pizza smell would silence my nose, but it doesn't." "So, what do you want to tell me?" " Tell you?" " Yeah, you're anxious." "You want to tell me something." "Well, Bob, okay." "People are talking." " About what?" " About you." "Me?" "Why?" "What are they saying?" "They think you're acting differently." "Like you're, I don't know, more sensitive to their emotions." "Well, I'm finding it a little easier to understand what people are saying." "And what they're not saying." "I don't know what's going on, David." "All I do know is that I don't want it to stop." "Yeah..." "I think we should go back to Dr Turnbull and have a little chat with her." "The amazing thing is people, David." "Their faces show one thing, but there's so much else going on." "See?" "Your face suggests that you are happy." "But actually, you are worried." "Don't be." "Okay, so this is LAX computer's motherboard." " There's the magnetobacteria." " Right." "No surprise there." "I have a theory about this biofilm I'd like to bounce off you." " Fire away." " Okay." "Dead magnetobacteria." "The cell walls have collapsed around the magnetosomes." "Some of them were killed by the agents we introduced." "No." "See, that's the thing." "They've actually died and formed protective layers on the surface of the biofilm." "You're thinking that they're engineered to keep reproducing, then the carcasses form a protective layer, keeping them from the ultraviolet radiation," " or whatever we're throwing at them." " Exactly." "Like soldiers fighting behind a wall of dead comrades." "This would have to be part of the engineering." " How the hell do they do that?" " I don't know, but the answer has to be down there somewhere in the genome." "Rachel Woods." "Oh yeah, thanks for calling back." "I think I might have something." "Maybe we could get together." "No, alone." "Yes, that would be perfect." "Okay, see you soon." "Well." "I thought I was never gonna hear from you again." "Sorry, just cleaning up a few details." "Don't you mean tying up loose ends?" "'Scuse me?" "I didn't know you were in touch with Carl." "What makes you think that I am?" "Because, you know, it's funny:" "every time he leaves a NorBAC meeting, he's on a call to you." "I have no idea what you're talking about." "I think the two of you are working together." "On what?" "Manipulating tantalum futures on pharmaceutical espionage!" "Theft, fraud..." "I don't know, Jonny, you tell me." "I can tell you that you're way off base." "You'll not walk away from this." "You can either talk to me or to the Justice Department." "You hired me to investigate your husband and I found nothing." "And now you stand here and give me shit?" "Are you really that stupid?" "This thing that Carl is working on, the magnetobacteria." "It is insanity!" "And it's escalating." "It's not just gonna stop at airport closures and stock manipulations." "God knows where this thing is gonna go!" "I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about." "So he got to you, didn't he, Jonny?" "All right, well, you can walk away from this one." "But you gotta give me something." "At least let me try and stop him." "This is bad, yes?" "This is really bad." "People could die." "A lot of people." "There's a numbered company in the Caymans." "That account... is the tip of your iceberg." "You'll keep my name out of this?" "I'm gonna tell anyone who cares to listen that you came to your senses." "You know what?" "You're worried about this magnetobacteria." "I'm worried about somebody getting a bullet in the back of the head." "Good night, Rachel." "Hey." "You okay?" "Been better." "What's this?" "Numbered Cayman Island company." "Relates to the coltan shipment." "It's exactly what I've been looking for." "Where'd you get this?" "Rach?" "You know, all this time," "I've been wanting to catch him, just hoping that he would slip up," " and we're almost there." " Almost." "So why don't I feel better?" "Maybe because he was your husband for 25 years." "It just got so big." "He pushed it so far." "You're doing the right thing." "You think?" "I'm gonna get onto this numbered company." "Okay." "Thanks." "Remember when all we had for a brain scan was an EEG?" "Yeah." " That feel okay?" " Perfect." "Okay." "This is the optical array." "If you could just help me out here, make sure it works." "This'll stimulate your retina so we can track the brain activity in your visual cortex." "And if it works okay, we can insert nano-trellises into the other eye." "That's what I'm hoping for." "Enjoy the show." "So this is the MRI of Bob's brain." "And this is the geodesic sensor net's output." "The optic nerve from the eye that we treated is firing beautifully." " I'm feeling odd, David." " Why, what's the matter?" " Are you a little claustrophobic?" " It's very uncomfortable." "Just hang in there for a little bit longer, Bob." "What is this here?" " Structure below the frontal lobes." " I don't know." "Whatever it is, I've never seen it active in any other brain scan." " David, I think I need to leave." " Bob, just relax, breathe." " Bob, it'll be all right." " I've to get out of here." "He'll be all right." "We'll call you." "Bob!" " I don't know what came over me, David." " Listen to me, Bob." "Clearly, there is something going on in your brain." "You can't just become empathic and deal with feelings if you've never encountered them before." "That brain scan will give us a clue as to what's happening." "We just need to pin it down." "David, I know this sounds weird, but when I panicked back there" "Just forget about it." "It's over." " But Dr. Turnbull..." " What about her?" "It wasn't exactly panic." "It was something else." "I must have really upset her." "I should call and apologize." "David." "You had better come in here." "What's up?" "We were doing some scans on the magnetobacteria." " Take a look at the magnetosome." " Yeah?" " What are those?" " That's exactly what we asked." "I thought it might be related to how the biofilm was formed, how it could be dirt." "So I decided to take a closer look." "A smiley face." "I hear you're looking for someone." "I think I can help." "That's Robbie McCain's calling card." "But Robbie McCain is dead." "Yeah, but he was working with the DARPA lab synthesizing smallpox." " Could they be involved?" " No, he stole the smallpox from them." "They had nothing to do with his terrorism." "Is this a signature of a terrorist group that Robbie McCain was a part of?" "I got a bigger question for you." "If Carl Riddlemeyer is somehow involved with all this magnetobacteria bullshit, was he involved with the smallpox, too?" "You want me to go to the Washington Post and tell them that Carlton Riddlemeyer, the science Czar of the USA, is behind acts of biological terrorism for financial gain." "Fine." "Call the New York Times." "Cornering the market on tantalum is one thing, but threatening to shut down the world's electronic infrastructure and a smallpox outbreak, that's just not Carl." "All right, all right." "What're we looking at?" "I mean, okay..." "Robbie McCain's calling card shows up." "Clearly," "Robbie McCain was not working alone." "So we know that Carl was tied into a tantalum scam, and Jonny Frank's guy, he gave you that numbered company." "He said that was just the "tip of the iceberg", right?" "And we know that Riddlemeyer has connections to Northern Sky, one of only four labs in the United States that's working with the magnetobacteria." "I don't know." "Yet." "Look, have Mayko look into Robbie McCain." "She already did." "I mean dig deep." "Everything." "Where he went to day care." "Who he took to the prom." "Who the best man at his wedding was." "And you'll have another look at Northern Sky Laboratories." "Find out exactly what they were doing with the magnetobacteria." "Rachel, work with Carlos." "We've to find a way to stop this primordial goo before it shuts down every circuit board on the planet." "What do they want?" "The smiley face gang." "Why haven't they tried to contact me like during the smallpox scare?" "Maybe 'cause they didn't get what they wanted last time." "But what about Riddlemeyer?" "He's connected to the magnetobacteria, but the smiley face people?" "What's that all about?" "David's right." "The smallpox wasn't about money." "It was about principle." "Carl doesn't have a principle in his body." "No offence." "None taken." "So then, he's not connected?" "No, he's dirty all right." "Something's just not there." "{\pos(200,225)}I had some sort of breakdown." "I'm not sure." "I think the virus is doing something more to Bob, and in particular his Jacobson's Organ." "You can't be serious." "The vomeronasal organ has been dormant in humans for millions of years." "We're shutting down the virus." "David, don't be angry or frustrated." "Nothing makes sense, Bob." "I don't know what is going on!" " What do you know about smallpox?" " What's the link with magnetobacteria?" " A smiley face." " I'm sorry." "Who's behind the smallpox?" "A million computer batteries are being recalled." "They're heating up, could explode." "It'll take a lot of tantalum to replace them." "Holy..." "Carl, I got a lot of work to do." " You gotta go." " What just happened?" "He's not in his apartment." "Doesn't look like he's been there all night." " What about the police?" " They have a description." "They also know the situation." "Same with Immigration and Customs." "Damn it!" "If you do anything to Bob, I will find you." "I'll rip your head off!"