Dr. Xiang Takes Charge
- The spies can relax since they think Rabbit is gone now. (They are wrong, but don't tell them—they've had a pretty stressful day already.) Also, the data coming out of the lab says that everything is fine.
- But Vaz still needs to cover himself while he ships out his animal models. And we mean his real animal model: mice.
- Meanwhile, Lena and Xiu are hiking up a hill. They see a California Highway police car and Xiu tries to stop it.
- Meanwhile, Tommie is in a lot of pain with his broken pacemaker and he's in the California Highway police car. We don't know what that feels like, but it sounds awful. The pacemaker part, we mean, not the police car part.
- When the car slows down, Tommie recognizes Xiu Xiang in front of it. (Back in the old days, when Tommie was a hacker, Xiu Xiang was an enemy.)
- After Xiang stops the car, she tells them that she thinks someone is pretending to be the cops. Also, she tells Tommie she's admired his work.
- Because they can't get any digital signals through, Xiu Xiang uses a toy she made to signal the marines by flashing light at the sky haze.
- So over at the marine base of Camp Pendleton, this is what Bob sees: Alice has been moved to Intensive Care; Credit Suisse collapsed; there's the library riot over at UCSD; and now there's some weird signaling going on over by the lab.
- Bob's team launches in their pods (small planes? gliders?) to be able to intervene if they need to.
- That message is from Xiu Xiang, saying that the GenGen laboratory has been corrupted.
- Thus, when Bob's vehicle is launched and targeted at the UCSD biotech labs, he has some idea that his mother, father, and daughter might be in the area. As they say in the Marines: Oy vey!