Chapter 8 Summary

Chapter 8 takes place on the next day in the novel's timeline, Thursday. Victor returns to the hospital and obtains blood and urine samples taken from Maurice Hobbs and Mark Murray. He then obtains a preserved sample of his son David's liver tissue from the hospital sample storage area. Victor returns to his lab and orders many more esoteric medical tests on the new samples. Victor then coordinates with his IT staff to attempt to trace the next hacker access on the Chimera computer system.

Victor and Colleen then discuss George Gephardt, and Colleen points out that Gephardt's main offense appears to have been purchasing expensive lab equipment which was delivered to Chimera, but subsequently vanished. Victor assumes he was selling the items, although he can't imagine who would buy such expensive and esoteric equipment on the black market. He tries to call Gephardt...