39 - Chemical Reactions

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[h="2"]Recap[/h]
[h="2"]Part 1[/h]
Scene starts at Mortuary 20 minutes after Wendy was bit. Robbins and Carl are chaining her to a table. She has been sedated with Chorophorm. Tonya arrives from Dunbar are starts ordering them around. There are body parts in jars everywhere. Tonya has Robbins help her take blood from her. Tonya yells Yes 375 we have something now, Robbins objects “but she is still alive” and Tonya tells his to stop being Squeamish. Robbins was scared by the mortuary, there were containers full of zombie parts.

Tonya asks Robbins to help. She measures the blood in a bandage at a value of 195 at time of contact. What she is measuring she doesn’t say. Sample 2 is taken at 20 mutes, She takes 3rd blood sample at 22 minutes and excitedly announces the eyes are slightly cloudy, the “YES 375 oh boy we now have something now, it’s time to open her up”. March 1st 2010 Michael diary entry describes finding a dead behemoth. After months of searching a group of civilian searching for fuel find a behemoth that had recently died from no visible causes. A regular zombie snuck up and bit a female colonist. They would normally kill her but Tonya wanted to monitor someone turning. Puck and Carl lament on how the 50 caliber truck escorting them didn’t help save them, but CJ would still not allow anyone to go out without a gun truck escort.

Michael, Puck, Carl and a new colony trainee Jay go out to replace batteries and memory cards on 62 cameras set up to search for zombie movements. Camera number 40 with card number 32 is the first inspected. If a sensor detects motion the camera takes a picture. Jay comments that CJ told him that Michael’s crew has been unable to find any zombies. Only thing on the camera was a lone wolf (solo) zombie and a dog so they grab the camera on the corner. Carl spots another lone wolf but it has something in its hand. Michael looks at the picture and recognizes the zombie Randy. Puck grabs another nearby camera to try to figure out which way Randy is going. Jay notices that the picture is only 15 minutes old, so Michael orders everyone in the truck and goes chasing off in the direction that Randy went. They stop near an alley and figure out which way the zombie went by smell. Puck comments that “they are not the only ones who can follow a trail by smell”. The alley is too small for the truck but when Michael spots Randy he and puck follow despite the danger. Randy easily jumps over a fence that Puck has to help Michael get over. Michael runs around the building but leaves Puck behind. A few regular zombies find Puck and he has to fight them off by himself. Puck is pissed at being abandoned. Jay manages to get the truck stuck in a flowerbed and Michael is ready to follow on foot. Puck convinces Michael to stay by pointing out that he just got outsmarted by zombies. Puck points out that Randy dropped his bag. They find the bag contained two bottles, one was broken and smelled strongly of chemicals. The labels were blurred, all that could be read on one bottle was “FO” but they discover a Raydon Labs logo on the bottom.

[h="2"]Part 2[/h]
The episode begins with Kelly typing into a computer. The phone rings; its Michael. She asks if he has found the address for Raydon Labs on the map, and asks his current location. He tells her that he is at safehouse 16, and that Raydon Labs isn't too far away. Kelly then asks if he wants Muldoon and Robbins to meet him there, though he radios the request to them himself. Kelly informs him that CJ is asking them to send back Jay and the gun truck for a construction mission. This frustrates him, and she suggests he take Victor as extra backup. Instead, he asks if she and Victor will check CJ's library for more information regarding Raydon Labs. Their conversation ends.

Tanya enters the room with her notes from Wendy's autopsy and blood samples, and Saul follows close behind - noticing that Tanya appears exhausted. Insisting she's fine, she says that she will spend the night at Dunbar to catch up with "her boy". Kelly enquires if she has ever heard of Raydon, to which she admits that she's never heard of them. The name sounds familiar to Saul however, though puts down the familiarity to a plane company called Raytheon. Tanya asks Kelly to input the notes into the computer, and Kelly pushes her for a little more information about their content.
Victor enters the room, also enquiring about Tanya's findings. Saul chastises them both for questioning her, insisting she is tired and knows nothing more than she has already shared. From outside the room, we hear Lizzy's voice, and Saul sarcastically thanks Victor for waking her. Saul tells Lizzy to "waddle back to her room", saying he will send Tanya to see her soon.
Victor asks Tanya about the behemoth, and she tells him about it being riddled with tumours. She doesn't believe these to be the cause of death however. Tanya continues to be questioned by Victor and Kelly about Wendy's blood samples and infection stages. Saul cuts them down again, though Tanya does go into more detailed about the elevated keratin levels in the blood during each stage of infection - hinting that she could use the data to develop a test for checking if a person is turning. She appears hesitant about pursuing this though - admitting that she isn't 100% sure and does not want to start a witch hunt. Victor taunts Saul about his potential keratin levels due to him being unaffected by the haze at Inglewood. Victor leaves the room to work on a generator, asking Kelly if Michael agreed to his help. She says no, blaming his reason on "that foul up". He insists that it wasn't his fault, and Saul tries to cheer him up. Saul and Tanya leave to set up her room for the night.

Now alone, she admits that she has tested both of their blood, and that they both have elevated keratin levels (Normal - 200, Saul - 311, Tanya - 340). Tanya also admits that Wendy's internal transformation was not only instantaneous, but irreversible. She states however, that she may be able to learn more if she can obtain a sample of the haze from Ground Zero, because of Saul's apparent immunity to it. He is afraid of leaving Lizzy to raise their child alone, though is interrupted when she enters the room. Tanya insists he keep quiet, and is overjoyed to see Lizzy, who wants to name her baby Nicholas (though Saul would prefer Saul Jr.) and Tanya suggests permanently moving to Dunbar to support Lizzy for when she gives birth.

The scene then moves to Dunbar, with narration from Datu. Complaining about not having a day off in weeks, he informs us that stress levels among the Colonists are rising due to diesel shortages affecting the generators.
The narration switches to Pegs, where we learn that the Colony has been expanded - increasing housing, farmland and storage capacity as well as access to water via a creek bed.
Switching back to Datu, we learn that this expansion is the reason for the diesel shortage due to the machinery used in the process. Datu explains that CJ insisted that they would find more, though this is proving both difficult and dangerous. The Colonists are also short on ammunition, promoting Datu to come up with a solution.

Glenn arrives and asks if Datu is still "working on this thing" A clearly working on some kind of compressed air weapon. Glenn admits that it just looks like a bunch of tubes and pipes. He also notices that Datu has the behemoth skin sample and jokes if Datu's "peashooter" could possibly shoot through it. He also reminds Datu that a gun truck has been waiting for over an hour to take them to the ground well. Still berating Datu about his weapon, he enquires about its PSI potential, velocity and accuracy. Datu suddenly loads up and fires 7 shots at the skin sample. To Glenn's utter amazement, Datu has hit and penetrated the sample twice, and admits that he stands corrected and is totally impressed. He even christens it the "Matagun", and offers to help Datu modify it and produce more. Passing Pegs' farm, they notice its progress, to which Datu suddenly remembers to do something important and runs off.

Switching over to Pegs working on the farm, she receives a call from Michael. He informs her about his potential lead, and asks Pegs if she will ask CJ if they can use the gun truck to check it out. Initially reluctant, she agrees to ask. Datu then runs in with a bunch of flowers for Pegs from Michael - apparently he was supposed to do it earlier in the morning!

Over to Michael at the safehouse. He receives a call from Pegs - CJ has agreed to his request. He informs Puck, Muldoon and Robbins that they are ready to head out to Raydon Labs.

[h="2"]Part 3[/h]

[h="2"]Trivia[/h]



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[*][URL="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2192935/"]IMDB Page for Chapter 2: "Inadequate Strength"[/URL]
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