Ch 2- if's are only that, lost opportunities.
If John Reese would have woke up two minutes earlier that day, if the old woman behind the counter wouldn't have given the wrong change, if the light had been green, if the world stopped spinning for a blink of an eye...he could have been able to stop the insane man from infecting the first victim; his own daughter.
"It's too late for you to be good now, your soul is corrupted. There is no way of fixing you, but now I know that you can still redeem yourself "the man said before stabbing the young woman's neck with the sharp needle and forcing the virus into her blood.
By the time the ex-CIA got there, the girl was already gone. By the time the face recognition software found her, she had already infected five people. For being a living-dead, she moved very fast.