In this segment, two IRS agents return from Susanville to Sacramento feeling very ill. Soon after, many others in that office and in the area where their vehicle was being service by other agents become ill as well. The saga increases until the Centers for Disease Control, the governor of California, and ultimately, the White House, become involved in a grueling attempt to locate the source of the fatal hemorrhagic fever and contain it before it spreads worldwide. This story is illustrative of how such a pandemic might occur.

Continued from PART VII

In this segment, Eric and Spritz meet with Fahad and relate their stories and how they came to be involved, especially how Spritz had developed the Doomsday virus. Eric is startled to learn that the day before leaving for San’a, Spritz had used his bio weapon on the two IRS agents who were responsible for his father’s suicide. Spritz gives an account of how the $15 weapon was very easy to use, demonstrating it was more powerful than the entire apparatus of Homeland Security in the hands of someone willing to use it.