The Plum Island Conspiracy — Part 7 (Finale)
Series — Samuel reveals how he got Marcus's confidential file off of Plum Island, and makes a heavy request of Calvin in his quest to stop TITAN
Samuel and Jeffry raced across the hall, practically knocking one another over in their haste to run through the door to the Gene Lab.
“What the hell is going on?” Samuel demanded.
Marcus breathed heavily. He stood by the far side of the room, facing the wall. Shards of glass littered the ground by his feet, and a grayish black smear oozed down the wall where he had hurled the culture, the beakers, and the severed hand.
“It doesn’t work,” He struggled to keep his voice from cracking. “It—it doesn’t match. We were wrong. All our theories... There’s not enough in common to make a reliable vaccine.”
Samuel was dumbfounded. He stared blankly at the stain working its way down the wall.
“The research has to be good for something, right?” Jeffry asked. He sounded half encouraging, and half fearful.
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