Aaron: “by the way, where is Coleman, isn’t he supposed to work with you?”

Josh: “he is busy covering for us upstairs”

Eric: (smiling) “yeah…, besides, maybe he is afraid that we test those substances on him”

Fay: “what…? do you think he is gay?”

Josh: “no…, I don’t think so, but he is weird, not girls, not boys, really weird…, but no, he is not gay”

Eric: “but he knows we are here and what are we doing, right?”

Josh: “he knows what we are doing, but he doesn’t exactly know the scope of our work here”

Fay and Aaron didn’t say another word; they have no choice, just have to follow Don’s order and there is nothing they could do against that.

The rest of the week Aaron made his people recruit selected homeless, the ones that looked gayish with the promise of a charity experiment.

Boston, Ma, Sunday 9:00 am 

The Boston police department had a very agitated night, the bodies of two men homeless have been found in East Boston, police officers at the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center reported they admitted two homeless women in the catatonic state, another homeless girl with hallucinations.

Jane: “Vince, what do we know so far is that all the victims are homeless, two of them are men and three women, there is no physical evidence of violence, but the forensics have found punctures on their shoulders, whatever is that was injected has already disappeared without leaving traces, there are also marks like letters and symbols”

Vince: “do you think is a ritualistic crime?”

Jane: “no, there were no mutilations, no blood, no altar, no additional drawings”

Tasha: “hmm…, What were the forensics conclusions about the deaths?”

Jane: “one of the men died from acute myeloid leukemia, but that man was tested 10 days ago in the same health center for anemia and there was no sign of any leukemia; the other died from Hemophilia, which is supposed to start at very young age, this last man was 48 years old and other homeless who knew him said, that he wasn’t hemophilic”

Vince: “hey…, apparently there is a common denominator in both cases, those men died from diseases that should be developed since long time ago, but they got suddenly sick and died very quickly”

Tasha: “is there some other particular information about those homeless people…, something that may connect all of them”

Jane: “there is something else…, apparently all of them were homosexuals or bisexuals”

Vince: “well I think we have the information that we needed to start investigating, this may be a hate crime…, I think we should look for more information among the homeless”

After Vince and Tasha left, Jane called Maura.

Maura: “honey, what happens? Aren’t you coming home?”

Jane: “I can’t, baby, five gay homeless have been attacked, two men are dead two women catatonic and one is hallucinating, I think you should warn everybody, especially Tina”

Maura: “oh my God…, this is terrible”

Jane: “it may be worst, all we know is they have started their experiments”

Kennard’s Building, Manhattan, NY, Sunday 7:00 pm 

Don Kennard has gathered some of his scientists in his office.

Don: “I want a report about the experiments”

Eric: “we have discovered which substance is the activator and which one is the deactivator, we have found the doses too”

Don: “excellent, have you checked if the individuals changed?”

Henry: “yes…, a former gay and a lesbian changed into straight ones”

Don: (smiling) “are you sure?”

Fay Buckley: (angry) “two men died and two women were left catatonic”

Don: “and what is the problem?”

Fay Buckley: “we are doing this to save people from sin, not to kill them”

Don: “my dear, I never thought or cared about sins, I just want a good profit for all of us…, think…, how much are you receiving for this?

Fay is silent and Aaron is not even looking at the others.

Don: “well, I think that I’m almost ready to make some deals; you guys can go; and Eric, keep me updated about the progress on those substances”

Henry: “what do we do with your niece?”

Don: “once everything is fine, we could relieve her from this task”

Josh: “are you going to fire her?”

Don: ‘of course not, I need more, lot more from her”

After everybody left, Don, studies the report left by his Imhotep team, while thinking ‘Howard Fairbanks, now we will have a deal’

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