{"id":30918,"date":"2026-10-05T19:30:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T19:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=30918"},"modified":"2026-10-05T19:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T19:30:36","slug":"part-16-rebeccas-recording-explained-why-sophie-was-still-alive-but-its-final-warning-revealed-adrian-had-designed-lucas-to-become-the-cure-for-everyone-else-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=30918","title":{"rendered":"PART 16 \u2013 Rebecca\u2019s Recording Explained Why Sophie Was Still Alive, but Its Final Warning Revealed Adrian Had Designed Lucas to Become the Cure for Everyone Else"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca\u2019s video had been recorded nine months earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Claire knew because a digital clock behind her displayed the date.<\/p>\n<p>Her sister sat in a plain room with concrete walls and no windows. Her hair was shorter than Claire remembered, streaked with gray. A bruise darkened one cheek.<\/p>\n<p>Yet her voice sounded unmistakably Rebecca.<\/p>\n<p>Controlled.<\/p>\n<p>Sharp.<\/p>\n<p>Angry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdrian believes Sophie is a failed branch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Claire felt Sophie\u2019s hand close around hers.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSamuel believes she is proof the platform can be repaired. They are both wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Shah leaned toward the screen.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca explained that Sophie&#39;s original vector had done more than delay tumor formation.<\/p>\n<p>It had created a stable population of modified immune cells that repeatedly eliminated precancerous cells for years.<\/p>\n<p>The instability came later.<\/p>\n<p>The system failed because it had been designed around Samuel\u2019s mutation model alone.<\/p>\n<p>It could not adapt safely to normal developmental changes.<\/p>\n<p>Puberty.<\/p>\n<p>Hormonal shifts.<\/p>\n<p>Immune maturation.<\/p>\n<p>Sophie\u2019s body changed.<\/p>\n<p>The vector did not understand the difference between change and threat.<\/p>\n<p>Claire looked at Dr. Shah.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why the problems started around puberty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca said she predicted exactly that.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel dismissed the concern.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian saw opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>If the failure could be measured, it could become a roadmap for a new platform.<\/p>\n<p>Cascade.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca looked directly into the camera.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLucas was not created to test whether the system could be corrected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eric flinched at the wording.<\/p>\n<p>Created.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was created to carry a system that could learn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Shah whispered, \u201cAdaptive somatic editing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morris nodded.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca described Lucas\u2019s vector as a biological decision engine.<\/p>\n<p>It sampled cellular signals.<\/p>\n<p>Compared them against an internal reference.<\/p>\n<p>Then generated new regulatory sequences.<\/p>\n<p>In principle, it could detect cancer before tumors formed and rewrite vulnerable cells continuously throughout life.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel stared at the screen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA permanent cure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca answered the thought from nine months earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is what Adrian will call it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sophie whispered, \u201cBut?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca\u2019s recorded face hardened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut a system that decides which cells are acceptable is only safe if its definition of normal never changes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lucas\u2019s did.<\/p>\n<p>Children grew.<\/p>\n<p>Immune systems learned.<\/p>\n<p>Hormones shifted.<\/p>\n<p>Infections altered cells.<\/p>\n<p>The body was not a fixed blueprint.<\/p>\n<p>Cascade treated difference as error.<\/p>\n<p>The more it corrected, the more its own corrections became the new baseline.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, Rebecca warned, the system could enter a feedback loop.<\/p>\n<p>Correcting corrections.<\/p>\n<p>Changing cells because previous changes had made them look abnormal.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Shah looked toward Lucas\u2019s laboratory results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morris nodded.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca had designed a containment mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>Not a drug.<\/p>\n<p>A sequence.<\/p>\n<p>A genetic dead-end that could force Cascade to stop producing new instructions.<\/p>\n<p>But Adrian removed it before treating Lucas.<\/p>\n<p>Claire whispered, \u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe believes instability is useful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Everyone stared.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca explained.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian\u2019s goal was not merely to prevent cancer in Lucas.<\/p>\n<p>He wanted to observe uncontrolled adaptation long enough to map which corrective pathways survived.<\/p>\n<p>The dangerous responses would be discarded.<\/p>\n<p>The successful ones could be extracted and converted into therapeutic libraries.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel stood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe turned the kid into a generator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Shah looked sick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sophie frowned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor medicine?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPotentially,\u201d Morris said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo he made Lucas sick so Lucas\u2019s body would invent treatments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No one corrected her.<\/p>\n<p>That was exactly what it meant.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdrian will tell himself one child can produce cures for millions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Claire looked away.<\/p>\n<p>It was always the same argument.<\/p>\n<p>Scale made cruelty sound mathematical.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca said there was still a way to stop Cascade.<\/p>\n<p>The containment sequence had not been destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>She had hidden it.<\/p>\n<p>Not in a server.<\/p>\n<p>Not in a freezer.<\/p>\n<p>Not in herself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Sophie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Claire stopped breathing.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Shah leaned forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca explained that years earlier, when she discovered Sophie had already received Samuel\u2019s original vector, she secretly altered one follow-up preparation.<\/p>\n<p>A small fragment of inactive genetic material was added.<\/p>\n<p>It did nothing to Sophie.<\/p>\n<p>It had no active function in her cells.<\/p>\n<p>But it preserved the containment sequence.<\/p>\n<p>Biological storage.<\/p>\n<p>Just as Adrian later did with Maya.<\/p>\n<p>Claire stared at Sophie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody stored things in my kid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sophie looked offended.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hate this family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eric nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca said the sequence could be recovered from Sophie\u2019s modified immune cells.<\/p>\n<p>If Lucas was ever subjected to full Cascade activation, the sequence could be synthesized into a shutdown vector.<\/p>\n<p>But there was a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Cascade would recognize the shutdown signal as foreign and attempt to rewrite around it.<\/p>\n<p>The treatment would need to be delivered faster than Lucas\u2019s cells could adapt.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Shah asked Morris whether that was possible.<\/p>\n<p>Morris\u2019s face tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe through high-volume cell exchange.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Samuel interrupted from his secure feed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Everyone turned.<\/p>\n<p>He had been watching silently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe shutdown sequence would need to be introduced ex vivo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Shah understood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemove cells. Modify them outside the body. Return them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat percentage?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least thirty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morris shook her head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s enormous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLucas is unstable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Claire looked toward Lucas\u2019s ICU feed.<\/p>\n<p>He lay unconscious.<\/p>\n<p>Monitors surrounded him.<\/p>\n<p>A boy who had been engineered to solve a problem adults created.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca\u2019s video continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Lucas reaches full adaptive cascade, do not try to suppress the system chemically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Samuel looked sharply at the screen.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca warned that broad suppression could force the vector into a survival mode.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of slowing, it might distribute adaptation into stem-cell populations.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Shah whispered, \u201cBone marrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morris went pale.<\/p>\n<p>If that happened, every new blood cell Lucas produced might carry active Cascade.<\/p>\n<p>The condition could become permanent.<\/p>\n<p>Claire felt Sophie\u2019s fingers tighten.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happens then?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Shah answered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe may not be able to shut it off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca\u2019s final instructions appeared as diagrams and sequence identifiers.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Shah immediately sent them to the secure laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>Sophie\u2019s blood was drawn again.<\/p>\n<p>This time everyone knew exactly what they were looking for.<\/p>\n<p>The hidden containment fragment was found.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca had told the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Maya stared at Sophie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou&#39;ve been carrying the answer this whole time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sophie frowned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would\u2019ve liked to know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Claire kissed her forehead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bell paused the video near the end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s another minute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They resumed.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca looked tired now.<\/p>\n<p>Less like a scientist.<\/p>\n<p>More like Claire\u2019s sister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you found this, Claire, I am sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Claire covered her mouth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought I could expose Samuel before he touched anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca\u2019s voice broke slightly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI underestimated how far he would go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She looked off camera.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Sophie was born, I tried to reach you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Claire began crying.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca said Adrian intercepted every message.<\/p>\n<p>She once reached the hospital during Sophie\u2019s newborn admission.<\/p>\n<p>Claire froze.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWas she there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bell checked the records.<\/p>\n<p>The forged hospital logs showed an unidentified woman entering the pediatric wing that night.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca.<\/p>\n<p>Claire remembered something.<\/p>\n<p>A woman standing near the elevators.<\/p>\n<p>Dark hair.<\/p>\n<p>Claire had been exhausted.<\/p>\n<p>She remembered thinking the woman looked familiar.<\/p>\n<p>Then Eric called her back into Sophie&#39;s room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel put an arm around her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw Rebecca.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the video, Rebecca continued.<\/p>\n<p>She had tried to get Sophie removed before Samuel administered the vector.<\/p>\n<p>She failed.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward she stayed inside the project because leaving meant losing all access to Sophie and Lucas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told myself watching them was better than abandoning them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Claire stared at the screen through tears.<\/p>\n<p>Another adult who stayed near the experiment believing proximity could become protection.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca seemed to understand the contradiction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was wrong more often than I was right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video ended with one final statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Lucas is activated, saving him matters. But do not let Adrian take the resulting sequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bell paused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca answered on the recording.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause if he gets a stable adaptive library from Lucas, he will not stop with cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The screen went black.<\/p>\n<p>Morris stared at it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe&#39;d expand it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo what?\u201d Daniel asked.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Shah answered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAutoimmune disease. Metabolic disorders. Neurodegenerative disease. Potentially enhancement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eric frowned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnhancement?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChanging traits that aren&#39;t diseases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The room went quiet.<\/p>\n<p>Sophie looked uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo making people different because somebody decides different is better?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Shah nodded slowly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sophie shook her head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat sounds worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Lucas\u2019s ICU, alarms sounded.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone turned.<\/p>\n<p>His white-cell count had suddenly risen.<\/p>\n<p>Not normal recovery.<\/p>\n<p>A rapid surge.<\/p>\n<p>Genetic sequencing returned minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Cascade had entered bone-marrow precursors.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Shah looked at Samuel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou said if it reaches stem cells\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow long do we have?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Samuel studied the values.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe six hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bell cursed.<\/p>\n<p>The shutdown treatment needed to be designed, synthesized, tested enough to avoid obvious failure, and delivered through extracorporeal cell modification.<\/p>\n<p>Facility 17 had been sabotaged.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital lacked specialized vector-manufacturing equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Maya remembered the mobile lab.<\/p>\n<p>The real one.<\/p>\n<p>Not the jet diversion.<\/p>\n<p>Bell checked the latest search reports.<\/p>\n<p>The truck had disappeared after leaving the rail yard.<\/p>\n<p>Its driver had not been found.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian was now in custody.<\/p>\n<p>Bell turned toward him on another monitor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know where the mobile lab is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adrian smiled faintly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eric stepped forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLucas is dying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adrian\u2019s expression barely moved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe may still stabilize.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe won&#39;t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Samuel leaned toward the camera from detention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTell them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adrian looked at his father.<\/p>\n<p>For a second Claire saw the old family war more clearly than ever.<\/p>\n<p>Not scientist against businessman.<\/p>\n<p>Father against son.<\/p>\n<p>Each convinced the other lacked courage.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel spoke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou wanted Cascade activated. You got what you wanted. Now help undo it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adrian\u2019s jaw tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe system is learning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#39;s destroying him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose are not mutually exclusive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maya stood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adrian looked at her.<\/p>\n<p>She did not cry this time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Lucas dies because you want the data, I will spend the rest of my life making sure everyone knows exactly what you did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Something shifted in Adrian\u2019s face.<\/p>\n<p>Not remorse.<\/p>\n<p>Calculation.<\/p>\n<p>Maya continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u2019ll give them everything you ever told me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t understand the intellectual property involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe platform belongs\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo who?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maya stepped closer to the screen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou? Grandpa? NorthStar?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adrian said nothing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt came from our bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou keep talking like you own it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adrian\u2019s eyes narrowed.<\/p>\n<p>Maya pointed toward Sophie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don&#39;t own hers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then toward Lucas\u2019s ICU feed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don&#39;t own his.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She touched her own chest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you don\u2019t own mine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adrian looked away.<\/p>\n<p>Bell said quietly, \u201cWhere is the truck?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adrian remained silent for several seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Then he gave them coordinates.<\/p>\n<p>An abandoned emergency-response depot thirty miles from the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Bell immediately dispatched agents.<\/p>\n<p>The truck was there.<\/p>\n<p>Locked.<\/p>\n<p>Empty.<\/p>\n<p>But intact.<\/p>\n<p>The laboratory equipment still worked.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Shah ordered it transported under federal escort.<\/p>\n<p>They could not move Lucas safely.<\/p>\n<p>So the laboratory would come to him.<\/p>\n<p>By evening, the truck stood inside a secured hospital service bay.<\/p>\n<p>Technicians converted it into a temporary vector-production unit.<\/p>\n<p>Sophie\u2019s containment sequence was synthesized.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas\u2019s blood-processing plan was prepared.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel and Morris argued over every step through monitored feeds.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Shah made final clinical decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Claire watched through the glass as science that had been used secretly for a decade was finally dragged into the light.<\/p>\n<p>Documentation.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>Consent.<\/p>\n<p>Oversight.<\/p>\n<p>Questions.<\/p>\n<p>Everything Samuel and Adrian had treated as obstacles.<\/p>\n<p>At 9:12 p.m., Lucas was connected to the exchange system.<\/p>\n<p>His blood left his body through one line.<\/p>\n<p>Modified cells returned through another.<\/p>\n<p>Maya sat outside the room.<\/p>\n<p>Sophie, still weak, insisted on staying awake.<\/p>\n<p>Eric stood between both girls.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel brought terrible vending-machine coffee.<\/p>\n<p>Claire held Rebecca\u2019s photograph.<\/p>\n<p>The first hour went well.<\/p>\n<p>The second did not.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas\u2019s heart rhythm destabilized.<\/p>\n<p>The exchange slowed.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Shah adjusted medication.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel insisted they continue.<\/p>\n<p>Morris wanted to stop.<\/p>\n<p>Claire watched the argument and understood that no one truly knew the correct answer.<\/p>\n<p>Then Lucas opened his eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Weakly.<\/p>\n<p>Maya stood.<\/p>\n<p>He saw her through the glass.<\/p>\n<p>His lips moved.<\/p>\n<p>She leaned closer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He whispered again.<\/p>\n<p>Maya looked at Dr. Shah.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Shah nodded.<\/p>\n<p>They continued.<\/p>\n<p>Near midnight, the newest sequencing result arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone gathered around the monitor.<\/p>\n<p>The Cascade activity had fallen.<\/p>\n<p>Not much.<\/p>\n<p>But enough.<\/p>\n<p>The containment sequence was working.<\/p>\n<p>Sophie smiled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then Dr. Shah frowned.<\/p>\n<p>A second signal had appeared.<\/p>\n<p>Not Cascade.<\/p>\n<p>Another engineered sequence.<\/p>\n<p>Older.<\/p>\n<p>Buried beneath it.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel stared at the result.<\/p>\n<p>His face changed completely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morris looked at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Samuel said nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Claire stood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eric turned toward his father.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Samuel closed his eyes.<\/p>\n<p>The second sequence was his.<\/p>\n<p>Inserted into Lucas before Cascade.<\/p>\n<p>Years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>A hidden fail-safe.<\/p>\n<p>Or so Samuel had called it.<\/p>\n<p>But as sequencing expanded, Dr. Shah realized it was not merely a fail-safe.<\/p>\n<p>It was a trigger.<\/p>\n<p>One designed to activate if Cascade was ever forcibly shut down.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel stared at Samuel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou built something that punishes anyone who tries to stop Adrian\u2019s system?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Samuel looked shaken.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen what does it do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Samuel whispered the answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt starts the original program again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Claire felt the air leave the room.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas was not returning to normal.<\/p>\n<p>If they successfully shut down Cascade, Samuel\u2019s first-generation vector would awaken underneath it.<\/p>\n<p>The same unstable system that had given Sophie Kevin and Gertrude.<\/p>\n<p>Sophie stared at the screen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if we save him from Adrian\u2019s experiment, Grandpa\u2019s experiment starts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No one answered.<\/p>\n<p>She looked at Samuel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou people really didn\u2019t know when to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Samuel had no defense.<\/p>\n<p>And for the first time since Claire met him, he looked as though he finally understood that.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=30920\">Click here to continue reading: PART 17: Lucas Survived Adrian\u2019s Cascade Shutdown Only to Awaken Samuel\u2019s Older Program, Forcing Sophie to Offer the One Thing Doctors Feared Taking From Her<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca\u2019s video had been recorded nine months earlier. Claire knew because a digital clock behind her displayed the date. 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