He jogged back to the car, and he actually looked better. He had some of his color back. He told me that his old boss had finally listened. “I don’t know how much he believed, but he believed some of it. He’s sending agents here.” The feeling I had, the crazy imagery in my head, was that I had been thrust into a real-life scenario that roughly paralleled the one in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I was beginning to think I could no longer trust anyone in Boulder or the surrounding towns. We hurried back to Carole’s house from Boulder. Carole saw the car lights and was waiting for us at the front door. “Everything’s cool here, Frannie,” she said. Obviously, she’d read the worried look on my face. “The kids were really good. Nobody’s been flying or anything.” “Yeah, except for you, Meredith, and Brigid. You’re flying out of here right now. Another doctor from the hospital is dead.
