Interval 1: Dejavu
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In the pitching darkness, a woman startled from her sleep answered her phone:

"Hello?"

Her reply came from an elderly man with much anxiety to his tone:

"Sorry to disrupt your rest, Aristide. But something has happened, something beyond our calculation...there's been another incident, not unlike the one in Auburn,"

"Not unlike the Auburn incident? How is that possible?"

"As unexpected as it seems, it could only be in one place..."

"Impossible!" the woman was obviously shaken:

"I thought you had that project terminated?"

"Frozen in oblivion," the man said calmly:

"And you know as well as I do, that I had no authority over the welfare of that project,"

"Save that for later," she retorted somewhat:

"I want to know CAN it be contained?"

"If it is the same catalyst from Auburn, then my answer is definite. There is only solution, and there can only be one outcome. I will see to it that this will be an unscheduled exercise to our program. Either way..."

He took a small breath in confidence:

"We should have nothing to fear..."