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and trembled, as the guard began to lead her away, slowly. Nurse Sawyer stepped in front of Dr. Bellos and whispered to him trying to recount the story’s bits and pieces.
    Bellos interrupted, “Nurse, you didn’t hear anything but the ravings of an emotionally unstable woman. Unfortunately, Angela Esposito has had a problem lately, of which I’ve only become aware of recently. She has been, allegedly, abusing her access to the private prescriptions on ‘focus ward’. It’s very sad, and a highly secure issue, because of the particular hallucinogenic involved. So, we didn’t have this conversation, Barb. We have invested a lot here, and we need her. We all need her. Listen, Barb, I need to get her through this as quietly as possible; make her rehabilitation work. Are you with me here? ‘I’ will handle this.”
    “Yes , of course; she seemed stressed yes, emotional yes; but, believe me; she was coherent. Look, Dr. Bellos, there are so many things I don‘t know about your precious ‘focus ward’; but I know people; and she wasn‘t on drugs.”
    “Well, I hope you don’t make me pull rank. I’ve told you more than I should already.”
    Bellos turned to walk away; and then he stopped, and turned back. With one eyebrow raised, he put his hand affectionately on Barb’s shoulder.
    “We have bigger problems, Barb. Please, work with me here. I have to go. Use that talent of yours to calm these people. Let them know that this is a special security situation. Nothing goes beyond this room, all right?”
    Sawyer was a professional, loyal trooper, yet always the skeptic. She blinked and nodded, “Right.”
    Bellos paused again, as though he just had an epiphany. He looked deeply into her eyes and said, “You’ve been here five years and have a great record, Barb. You know more than most about everything here, don’t you?”
    “I like to think I’m up to date.”
    “Well, until we sort this out, I am reassigning you. You are the only other person I trust, with the qualifications and experience to oversee ‘focus ward’. Report to me at 4:00 p.m. sharp, this afternoon in my tenth floor office. Meantime, check your computer and read all the ‘redirect security protocols’ involved. We will discuss your specific duties and access codes at that time. Please be prepared to perform, on a 24/7 basis.”
    It was close to three a.m.; Bellos sped off to the elevator. Barb Sawyer stood , in shock, at the lounge door, watching Angie and her guard, disappear down the hallway.
     
    Chapter 4
    Total Recall
     
    Dr. Mathew Bellos entered the elevator and pushed ER-1. He could not help thinking about his history with Rachel and Jack over the years.
    Their first meeting took place while working at V.I.R.A.I.D., Viral Infection Research and Internal Development. At that time, it was a sub-contracting company to the Defense Department. Each of them worked in different specialized DNA laboratories. Jack and Rachel’s team were developing a new military concept. The premise was that too much testosterone with adrenaline caused over aggression, which was the basis for military behavior. Their objective was to suppress these two chemicals, in the body, by deploying a gaseous contagion during combat. Rachel and Jack isolated and defined formulas that, if proven correct, would prevent these hormones from secreting within ten seconds. The distribution perimeters were within a hundred square yards. If they succeeded, the target troops could not fight; no fighting, no war. This effort was to be the foundation, upon which, Jack would later define ‘chemical personality controllers’.
    A t that same time, young Dr. Bellos’s team was researching ‘dormant viruses’ reactions to various stimuli. A virus can lay dormant for thousands of years; and then, with proper stimuli, it can become active; alive again. His research team progressed to reactivate not only several viruses, but also, some rare bacterial subjects. Eventually, Bellos