Mr. Ballin

Dozens of officers and crime scene technicians were going in and out of the space, wearing these big protective suits, and they were swabbing surfaces and collecting evidence.

Because of those tests that Dr. Jukes had run, Murphy knew exactly what substance had sickened Don and Charlie, but he had no idea how they could have come in contact with it.

And answering that question was now a matter of international security.

Now, not only was Murphy's counter-terrorism unit involved, but so were multiple other agencies, including the UK's Secret Service, which is known as MI5.

MI5 would deal with the other countries outside of Europe that were now getting involved in this.

In addition to Charlie's apartment, the counter-terrorism unit had been deployed to the hospital and were making anyone who visited Don and Charlie now wear protective gear.

They had contacted all the paramedics and all the officers who'd interacted with Don and Charlie and made them bag up their uniforms and equipment as biohazards.

Some police officers were now sifting through literally thousands of hours of CCTV footage from all around the city from the past few weeks, looking for any signs of Don or Charlie.

And others were contacting Don and Charlie's friends to try to get a sense of their recent movements.

At least one friend had already taken officers on a tour of a park they'd all gone to the day before Don and Charlie got sick.

Murphy actually had a team headed there right now to close it off and start taking more samples.

He also had another team at Don's place doing the same thing.

And so, as Murphy stood there watching the officers in suits go in and out of Charlie's apartment...

He knew that really, as big as this was, this was actually just the beginning.

He was going to have to be patient, because even though the situation was clearly urgent, he also knew it could take a long time to figure out exactly what happened and why.

And so at this point, all Murphy, or anybody else for that matter, could do here was just hope that, you know, the authorities found some answers before more people got hurt.

But just four days later, on July 8th, Don was taken off life support and died in the hospital.

And of course, that was incredibly tragic.

But specifically for Murphy, he was hoping to get a chance to speak to her.

She was a potential treasure trove of information about how this whole thing happened.