Throughout Whoop HQ tension is searing. Nurse Sonia is supervising Grzegorz' monitors, something is going amiss. She calls the doctor.

"IT'S THE MEAN MAN!" Alex cries out. Grzegorz wakes startled, his pulse- and heart rate soaring. Sonia runs towards her patients, she pushes a red and a blue button on her watch. In the medics room the alarm goes off. In Jerry's office a blue square shows on his monitor. He switches the security camera and sound on from sickbay.

Alex is still screaming. "It isn't David, It's the Mean Man. I saw it in his eyes. I knew there was something wrong." Sonia tries as well as she can to calm Alex. She doesn't notice what's happening in the other bed.

Grzegorz tries to stand up. He doesn't know he lost the use of his legs. But is unfortunately going to find out. "Shush shush my little one" he addresses Alex.

"Bulldog, you're there?" asks Alex, as Sonia is in the way for her to see him. Sonia turns around to see Grzegorz fall out his bed. Two medics storm the room. It's as if time has come to a halt. Nobody could go any faster, but the agent topples over and lands with a crash on the floor.

Alex is in shock. Bulldog, how does he look, all bandaged up. "AAAAAAAAHHHHH!"

"Paul van Waterglas?" Asks Jerry. A voice, creaking and wheezing from too often too much alcohol answers, "Who is this, I paid my bills leave me alone." Before the man can put down the receiver, Jerry says: "Mean Man". If ever AA gets to know this method ... Paul is as sober as he'll ever will get. "Grzegorz?" "Sorry Paul, it's Jerry. We need you for Alex."

"How do I get to you? ... AAAAAAaaaaaaaaahhhh."

"Hello Paul", "That's no way to treat an alcoholic. I could have thrown up." But Paul is already watching the sick bay. "Is she right? Is it, ..." Paul seems to have distinct trouble with this man's name.

"Yes, Paul, it's Jean Devereaux."

The two medics pick up Grzegorz from the floor and put him back in bed as the doctor walks in. "What happened?"

Alex is sitting all cuddled up, shivering and with chattering teeth. Her hands on her ears and eyes shut.

"Grzegorz fell out off his bed when trying to come to Alex's help." Says Sonia. The doctor takes a look at Alex, but quickly gives his attention to Grzegorz. The monitors are going berserk. Till suddenly, all goes quiet. The medics turn back to ... "Don't bother," says the doctor, "the internal haemorrhage has opened by the fall. There's nothing we can do." Silently the doctor closes Grzegorz's eyes and put the sheet over his face.

"Hello Alex." Alex looks up. "Paul" she cries out. The doctor throws a dark look at Paul, but seeing Jerry behind the man decides to keep it shut. He gestures to the medics to take the corpse away. Jerry sees them walk out. Yet another man lost.

"Hello Puppy, how are you feeling?" asks Paul.

"He's back Paul. He disguised himself as the school's hottie and he took me on a date. He tried once more to rape me. I'm afraid. He'll come to get me. What am I to do?"

"Shush shush Puppy, Jerry is here, I'm here and your friends are here." At this point Jerry intervenes, "Their on the way, but not yet here."

"Is everything all right with them? He'll try to hurt me through them." Jerry can hardly say that Clover's more dead than alive and Sam's elbow ... Luckily Paul comes to his aid.

"Come Puppy, you're not yet your sweet self. Your concussed, Whoop will take care of everything. You get physically healthy, and you and I will work on the rest."

Alex looks Paul in the eyes, although blood shot, she sees the hazel colour eyes that brought her peace again. He's right she must get better. She lies down. Sonia gives her a sedative and soon she is asleep.

"Am I allowed to know what the situation is like Jerry?" Asks Paul.

"We're at war, Paul. Whoop has cut all links to every government in the world. We are on our own."

"Good God, why. What can be so devastating that ... you came to this decision?"

"It wasn't entirely my decision, I suggested the USA, but ... we are currently protecting the president's daughter. Officially that's Secret Service ground. But when I asked back up, they refused. I informed World HQ and this is the result."

"They know about Jean?" "That's why I asked Back-up." "Oh." The two men looked at the monitors. Where were his spies?