Elise Park: We cleared the ground floor up to the sixth. A few scattered infected here and there; nothing we couldn't handle. All that was left was the basement - B1, B2, B3. We were expecting the worst, the kind of environment they like. Plus, the old-timers said that down there was where they brought the first Cordyceps patients in '03. On top of that, we had an access problem.
[Smooths out map and points at stairwells]
Elise Park: These stairwells here, here, and here caved in, and all the elevator cars were stuck in their shafts just below ground level. The only other way out of the basement was here, this stairwell. So yesterday, that's where I sent a squad, down to B1.
Hanrahan: And?
Elise Park: Nothing. The whole floor was empty; not even rats. So today, B2, hoping for more of the same, I sent another squad down, and I put Leon in charge, 'cause... he's my best. Few minutes later, he radios back - there's Cordyceps on the walls, the floor. Chances are, they'll find infected next, but that's what they're down there for, so I told him to proceed. Five minutes later, he radios again. This time, he... he was struggling to breathe. He could hardly talk. I thought maybe he had been bit; I said, "Leon, were you bit?" He said... he said, "It's in the air." He said, "It's in the air. Seal us in." And I knew it wasn't in the vents, or we would've all been infected weeks ago. So, I scrambled my other team, and we locked the only door to B2, and we locked the only door to B1. And we did what Leon said - we sealed them in.
