The two men stared at each other frozen momentarily as they heard Cody's voice come over the radio that Josiah held in his left hand.  He sounded winded and scared.  "I have two more of these rabid beings thrashing around up here."  They heard some loud banging sounds and then Cody's voice again. "I am not sure how long I can keep them contained. They have broken down one door already."   There was some more scuffling sounds and a few groans and growls.  "I am sending some help.  Keep your self safe at all cost. Do what you need to do." Josiah glared at Tony as he responded.  Then  looked over Tony's shoulder to where the two uniformed officers stood.  "You both need to get up to the second floor now.  Be ready for anything.  These crazed humans seem to have only one thing on their mind, eating flesh."

Blake and George raced down the hall toward the stairs.  Trying to be cautious for movement as they moved past door ways.  George really did not understand any more than Blake.   One thing  was clear, whoever or whatever it was  held responsible for what they had seen so far, was still at large.

Blake was the first to reach the top of the stairs and did not see the  huge rabid man until he had  lunged forward towards him. It caught him off guard and in one quick motion he felt himself  slip falling backwards. His legs flailed wildly in the air as he lost his footing on the step.  There was nothing under him until he felt the stairs impact on  his back and legs. The room went black as  pain enveloped him.

George tried to stop his partners fall.  But as he reached out to help his friend the beastly man pounced  wildly at him. Together they tumbled  down the stairs. When they landed George was pinned beneath the huge ghastly figure. He did not even have a chance to pull out  his gun before he felt an awful pain tear  through his body.   He screamed out as he felt a large piece of flesh  being ripped from his shoulder.  He thrashed in a desperate attempt to free himself.  The  pain from his muscle and skin being ripped from his body  was almost paralyzing.  He let out a loud gasp while he tried to catch his  breath and fight to free himself. The hideous creature was to strong and he felt  teeth clamp down on him again.  The bite  took a large portion  out of his throat. Blood spewed out of him like a fountain.  George began to gurgle as his throat filled with the warm thick liquid.  he breathed one long last breath before the room and everything around him began to fade.

Blake tried to move his legs as he  opened his eyes.  He heard his companion's deadly screams and desperately tried push himself up.  He managed to get to a half sitting position.  Pain throbbed in his lower back and twisted legs. He let out a low groan as he  attempted to move his limbs.  Five feet away he saw  George laying  in a mangled bloody mess,  with a monster attacking him.  It was insane what he was seeing. The creature continued ripping flesh from  George with his teeth while George now laid motionless.  He pulled out his gun and felt the bullet fire.  It ripped into the grotesque man chest, knocking him part way off George. The monster man was covered in blood and tissue.  He watched in horror as he saw the creature struggle to push himself back up. Turning his head in the direction the bullet had been fired from he snarled.  His amber pupil less eyes stayed fixed on Blake when he saw him.  With  gnashing teeth and fragments of blood mixed with saliva spewing from his mouth he  let out low animal like roar towards  Blake while he pushed his himself up onto his knees in an effort to try and position himself to make a full attack on his next prey.   

From inside the lab room Cody heard the screams. He swung with all his force and sent  the rabid female he had been trying to contain flying hard across the room.   Her head bounced in several directions as her torso and shoulders made  impact on the wall and then to a  metal cabinet and then finally to the floor.   He watched as a pool of blood began to form   where her skull had split open.

Tony studied Josiah's  face for a moment before he spoke again. He had to somehow take charge of the situation. His head pounded and he felt sick to his stomach.  He looked down at his Brunello Cucinelli Italian loafers.  He cursed  as he noticed a slight stain of blood on the side of his left foot.  The whole scene was a gruesome nightmare.  This just could not be happening,  he thought to himself.    He needed to get this country hick to back off him.  He wanted the files he had sent Nathan in to get  and he was not about to let some Barney Fife get in his way.    Not only that he  had to make sure Eve was held responsible.  Most importantly, Tony had to make sure none of this  lead  back to Copeland's head office pointing a finger at him.   He had everything to lose and he was not  going to let that happen, not ever, no matter what it took.   "What happened here." He demanded again, in a tone that bellowed through the air.  Josiah stepped aside slightly to let Tony enter the room.  "You tell us what you and your  Copeland group created out here."  Tony surveyed the room in silence.  How the hell could things have gotten so out of hand. He wondered to himself.  He felt his  perspiration build and his pulse quicken. How could the sheriff and the other law enforcement idiots still not have the situation under control.   His eyes went directly to  where Eve was working.  He felt the heat of anger rise in him.  That bitch he thought to himself as he stared at her.  In one of the corners of the room she had set up what looked like to him make shift a table top lab.

 Eve studied  a blood sample she had drawn from Zach's arm  under a microscope, silently.  Then made a few notes in a ledger book.  She rubbed her temples and closed her eyes for a second.  She could feel fatigue fighting to take control.  She looked at  another small specimen tray of fluid.  Then turned a few pages in another spiral notebook.  She went through several more notes, suddenly it seemed she found  something.  Something perhaps that she had been  looking for.   Eve did not even bother to notice Tony had entered the room.  She looked over at Doc and  motioned for him to come look at the scope.

It was hard for Tony to hear as the two spoke softly to each other. Anything she might have found he needed to know about.  He started to move in closer to where the two conversed.  Josiah grabbed at his arm roughly.  "Why don't you just start telling us what the  hell your labs have really been doing for the past 6 months."  Tony  pulled his arm back and stiffly jerked away from Josiah's grip. "Take your hands off me.  I think Eve would be the person with all the answers.  She has been in charge here since we opened trials." Tony sneered at Josiah as he spoke.  He was insulted to be addressed in this manner and wanted to make sure the sheriff understood he refused to be addressed this way. Josiah stared into Tony's face waiting for the man to answer-almost daring him to make a move.  It almost  seemed the he had  no regard for the human life that had been  lost.

Josiah hated  cooperate guys like this.  He knew the kind.  They ride in on their high horses only after they send in the front guys first.  Tossing their power around wanting people to scramble at their beck and call.  Passing the blame to keep their own name clean at all cost.  He believed Eve when she said she had placed several calls in to the headquarters weeks ago, when she first suspected  something.

Eve turned rising to her feet as she heard the shuffle between Josiah and Tony. She felt disgust as she looked at her boss.  She was beginning to put it all together now.  The incomplete files, the early release of study participants.  The frequent change in staff shifts.  All the different  lab people Copeland had recruited that had passed through her office, it all was beginning to make sense now.