"She's getting worse, Kara."

Kara purposefully avoided making eye contact, and did her best to keep her voice level. "I know that Luther. I don't know what to do." She loomed over Alice who was in a temporary stasis mode as a way to avoid suffering through...whatever this was. Kara shook her head, "Androids aren't supposed to get sick! I already deactivated all her illness programmes." She was starting to sound frantic.

Without sounding accusatory Luther corrected her. "She's not sick Kara. She's in pain. I don't know how or why but something's hurting her."

Kara's body tensed. Why them? Why after everything they had been through couldn't it be enough. "It's okay Luther we'll figure it out." Luther only worried more with Kara's forced reassurance. He was about to speak when...

"Kara." Cameron, Rose's brother, entered the room. "For you..." And he motioned to the phone in his hand. Kara and Luther both stared at it like they had never seen a phone before.

"For me...?"

Cameron just nodded.

Kara took the phone and left the room, giving Alice a final worried look.

"Hello?" She spoke into the phone. Kara had never got a phone call on an actual phone in her life. Only a few people had her number and when they called it was easy to answer cybernetically. This was strange, this meant someone who didn't have her personal number was calling her.

For a moment all was quiet. "Kara?" A girls voice.

Not a voice she recognised. "Yes. Who is this?"

"A friend."

Kara's stress level rose 2%.

The girl kept talking. "I know what's happening to your daughter. Alice."

Another 4%. "Tell me who this is. How do you know about her?!"

"Because it's not just her." The voice was a little less soft, a little more determined. "What's happening to her is happening to everyone. Except it's different for her, it's working more slowly which means she's got more time. Which means you've got more time to save her."

Kara turned back to make sure Luther wasn't listening.

"What's working more slowly. What do you mean?"

The girl on the other line became more incessant. "The pain. It's killing her do you want to stop it or not."

"How do you know all this?" Kara's inflection raised.

"Is that the question you should be asking Kara..."

Kara grimaced. No as a mother it wasn't what was important here. "How do I save her?"

Kara couldn't see the smile on the other line. Slowly the voice said, "rA9."

Kara closed her eyes. It always had to come back to that didn't it? Before she could ask the voice elaborated.

"rA9 is the answer. Go, find rA9 and eradicate the pain."

"What? I don't even know what rA9 is. Is it a who or a what and where is it?"

"There's a fax machine in your house right?" There was and it was clear she already knew that. Kara didn't answer. "I'm sending you an address. If you want to help Alice. Go there, if you don't trust me then don't but she's not going to get any better."

Kara mulled silently on the other line.

"Good luck."

"Wait!" Kara jumped in. "That's all you're going to tell me. I need more to go on."

"No you don't. You'll figure it out."

"But I-" The line went dead. Kara threw the phone onto the nearby couch and ran through the house, to the fax machine. She picked up the newly printed paper and read the address. Kara sighed. "Of course...Detroit."