Mr. Ballin

He was glad to know more about Dawn as a person.

She seemed wonderful.

But he had been hoping for some kind of breakthrough about what exactly had happened to her.

And he hadn't gotten that.

I mean, none of them had been able to give him any answer.

It could maybe even begin to explain what was going on.

And so at this point, he really wasn't sure what else he could even do.

But as Dr. Jukes headed back towards his office to try to figure out his next move, he saw a lab tech rushing towards him down the hallway.

The tech was holding a piece of paper, and when he reached Dr. Jukes, he shoved the paper into his hands.

The tech was out of breath, but told Dr. Jukes he had to read this right now.

So Dr. Dukes, he looked at the paper and he saw that it was the lab results for Dawn and Charlie.

And when he scanned its contents, he could not believe what he was reading.

The new blood tests that he had ordered did not confirm the presence of pesticides or of any other street drugs, but they did show something else, something so unexpected and so dangerous

that Dr. Jukes now knew for certain that Don and Charlie were not the only ones at risk here.

Everyone was, like literally everyone in Charlie's apartment building, everyone in Don and Charlie's neighborhood, all the paramedics, all the doctors, all the nurses that had treated them, and all the patients in the hospital, literally everybody.

In fact, it was even possible that everyone in the whole city was now in danger, and it might already be too late.

And so Dr. Jukes sprinted down the hall towards his office.

He picked up the phone and he called the police.

A few hours later, the deputy head of investigations for one of England's counterterrorism units, Philip Murphy, stood on the street outside of Charlie's apartment building.

His team had completely cordoned off the whole building and evacuated everybody who was inside.