With samantha frightened, shrieking and hanging out the window, michael manages to pull her inside, with samantha collapsing on top of michael, visibly shaken, but relieved to be now, safely inside. (if you call this safe)
chapter 4: Clarity
achingly michael and samantha pick themselves up off the ground, one step closer to getting out of this. They find their way down the hall, but right next to the guard room, michael looks into a padded cell, where he finds a horribly mutilated body, with both its arms full of syringes. Then michael takes a closer look at his face, and realizes that he is extremely familiar to him, michael knows that he has never seen the person here before; and with his case of amnesia, he has no clue as to where, he recognizes the person from. Curious, and wanting to find answers, thinking if he could just remember who the person is, that just maybe it will jog his memory. Michael then recalls the guards room from the floor above; and remembers that it had patient files and information in it. Remembering that, samantha and michael both rush into the guards room, where samantha rummages through the ammunition cabinet, refilling their little ammo situation. Michael rips through the filing cabinet, and by finding the patients room number on file, michael is able able to locate the patients name; he reads the patients name, and then all of a sudden michael’s memories come flooding back in. The patients name, billy loomis, filled with sadness, michael continues reading, as he reminisces at the same time. The patient was michaels brother, they did everything together, they both worked at the prison together, michaels brother, was his shadow and went everywhere he went. However, why was his brother, here as a patient? Did michaels brother take what happened to him, that hard? Just then michael sees another file; that says, (patient evaluation): June 30 2012: It reads; we have orders from the top, that billy is highly unstable, completely unattached from reality, and extremely suicidal. Billy has been ranting on about "i killed them” “, i set him up” “, if i did not do it, they would kill my boys, and me” “, im sorry”, "im sorry” “, im sorry" (repeating). As michael is reading this tears begin filling his eyes, and start pouring down his face. Michael begins filling with anger, because he knows exactly what billy is referring too. Samantha notices michael is distraught, but michael continues on reading: When we ask billy who, and what he is talking about, he will not answer us, billy just bangs his hands against his head and repeats, "im sorry”. He is extremely violent, and just sits in his cell, rocking back and forth, billy is too far gone, and there is no hope in bringing him back, or introducing him back into society. (end document) michael consumed with rage, and wanting to pound billy for what he has done. Michael fights back his emotions, and notices there is another document in billy’s file, dated just two days ago, that goes on to read, (patient cleansing): February 13th 2013: We have been informed of the current situation our government is trying to enforce on the populace. We have our orders to exterminate the patients with a new drug that will send a chemical to their brain receptors, putting them into a coma, and that we have to allow them, to starve themselves too death. As michael is reading this, he silently starts thinking to himself; “that just maybe the bullet fragments, that are still lodged his brain, might have acted like a blocker to the receptors, and may have prevented him from receiving the full dosage of the chemical, that would have caused him too become one of them. Michael continues reading on: The other option we have; is that the military will enforce martial law, and massacre who ever they feel, are not useful in society, or anyone that resist, or fights against them. They feel this is the only peaceful solution to the situation. They informed us that billy loomis, and michael loomis are being contained, because the fear, that they would not cooperate with this endeavour, and they would cause a problem to this peaceful solution. His brother, michael loomis has already refused to cooperate, and threatened to expose this protocol to the public, so we contained them both, for the better good. The asylum has just received a transmission from the prison telling us that we have the governments permission to begin administering the drug, and that the prison will begin administering the drug on the inmates there at 0900 hours. We have also been informed that the government is going to secretly expose this drug to all the families, which are on the government food program. The transmission ended with “, may god rest there souls” ”, may this bring a new beginning” ”, and a brighter future”. (end document) in shock, and horrified by these revelations, and consumed by emotions, michael rushes into billy’s cell. As samantha curious and confused reads the documents. Michael begins pounding on billy's deceased chest with both hands, shouting; “why” “why” “, we could've fought this together”, with the last pound of billy's chest, billy’s eyes open; lying flat on his back, he hurls michael across the room, slamming him against the wall. Samantha rushes into the room after hearing the commotion, to find billy holding michael, by his throat with one hand, several feet off the ground. Seeing that michael’s face is beginning to turn blue, samantha reloads her pistol; billy slowly turns his head, looking towards samantha, still holding michael by his throat. Samantha shoots, hitting billy right between the eyes, and with that billy is dead again. As they both fall to the floor with michael gasping for air, samantha runs over; rubbing michael on his back, emotionally saying, "i can't believe this is happening” ”, and why would they do this to you, and everybody else". Now knowing that samantha has read the documents and now knows what is going on, she looks in michaels eyes and says, “im so sorry about your family, and your brother,” “you don't belong here, im so sorry i doubted you,” “but we can't stay here, we have to get out” . With that michael and samantha sprung to their feet and headed to the nearest stairway praying, that it was not blocked off or infested with the infected patients. Michael also began to worry that it may be filled with infected civilians; not knowing to how far this nightmare has spread.