Jamie and Ròs leads Lila through the halls, Theodore elsewhere as he uses his Sonic Screwdriver tracking the radiation levels throughout the UNIT building, in his attempt locating the hotspot.
Scouring the halls, the trio searched for anyone, hoping to warn them of what they discovered, but they haven't found anyone, worrying Jamie and Ròs.
What set them over the edge's finding the weapon locker, heavily fortified, guarded, picked clean.
Seeing this, Lila reached out to Theodore, warning him of armed soldiers, difficult to say which ones, but Theodore thanked her, before warning her in return, reminding her of his expectations.
"Aye-aye, captain!" Lila responds before moving forward with Jamie and Ròs while they continued searching for anyone in the building, however, once again, they haven't found anyone.
Tensing up, Ròs says, "Where's Brigadier Perry, Captain Davies?"
No alarms going off in the building, nothing, except empty hallways, rooms, as her soft hazel eyes darted around, Ròs feared the worse happened.
"How could've this have happened; we were only gone for a few minutes!" Jamie found it difficult that this happened without their knowledge.
From sneaking into the cell to speak with Theodore and Lila, to the medical ward, they didn't see anything or anyone.
Tensed, Lila responded with, "Are there any hideaways, anywhere they could've hidden?"
Maybe the unaffected soldiers fell back to an area blocked off from the affected soldiers while regrouping.
Thinking it over, Jamie replied that in training, they're given instructions on where to go if there's an insurrection, Ròs adding that they regrouped in a hidden room that they're trained to recognize.
However.
With the affected soldiers, it would've compromised the safety of the hidden room, that they'd have to regroup elsewhere.
"Oh, of course," Lila muttered under her breath.
Locating a security office, Jamie found it's been obliterated, screens smashed, console destroyed, papers strewn on the ground, and the radios that clipped to their belts in pieces, further putting them in the dark.
"How can a meteorite do this?" Jamie looked towards Lila for guidance as she processed the security room looking like a bomb went off, before telling him that she didn't know what to say, that it can be anything, honestly.
Al said it wasn't alien, not the alien they're accustomed to handling during their adventures, but he never said it couldn't be parasitic, to some capacity.
"Is there anyone who sticks out in your heads, someone who might've pushed for the exercises?" Lila asked if the two knew anyone that insisted the affected soldiers exercise on the day, they became affected by the meteorite.
Someone who had the power to censor the meteorite's existence, some fashion.
Cogs turned in their heads, before Jamie replied that he didn't know anyone capable of this and Ròs agreed with him, saying that they know everyone in the building since they enlisted, that if anyone acted out of character, they'd know about it.
"Okay, what about someone who isn't from this branch?" Lila compelled them to expand their attempts at parsing the guilty party, hoping someone stuck out that they can latch onto until further notice.
More difficult than it looked, neither could've answered her question, no one's coming to mind, and they've expended their memories to the nth degree.
"You'd have to ask Brigadier Perry, ma'am," Ròs tells Lila that he was the only one with more resources and knowledge on the matter.
Which, the problem came, of course.
"On the off-chance, anyone else springing to mind?" Lila asks if there's anyone else, they could've talked to, in the event Brigadier Perry wasn't among them or became one of the affected people in UNIT.
Jamie innocently says, "Brigadier Ramsay, he's an old coot, if not Brigadier Perry, it'd be him."
Lila sees the look in Ròs's face and when called on it, she immediately says, "I don't know if he's in the area."
Sensing tension, Lila turned to Jamie, who informed her that, yes, Brigadier Ramsay's Ròs's father, and well, that's about it, really.
Put military above family, as it went.
Not something Ròs talks about, freely, even Jamie didn't know about him until he showed up one day and it clicked.
He'd known Ròs for years, despite everything they've been through together, wasn't even aware her father was a brigadier until, then.
It's a good thought as any and while they haven't run across an affected soldier, Lila took an opportunity.
Through the telepath connection between her and Theodore, Lila reached out to Al, asking him to check the whereabouts of Brigadier Ramsay, which didn't take any time, because Al concluded that the brigadier left the main base after the computer flagged Theodore.
"Is he of suspicious qualities?" Lila opted to know ahead of time, but Al replied that he wasn't a bad actor, a questionable father who left his only child to nannies for much of his military career, but wasn't anyone who'd go through the efforts to induce radiation.
However, Al says there's some files on the brigadier's early military career that he couldn't get to without risking exposure to the military that caught his eye.
Blocked off from access, censored, name it, the files weren't viewable, and Al wasn't risking a trip to the building for the hard copies.
"Why would they redact the files?" Lila asked for his opinion and he told her that outside the usual suspects, it's a short list of reasons for the redactions.
Doubting Ròs would know anything about the redactions, Lila continued, asking Al's help locating the brigadier, but before Al could've obliged, the only thing to happen in a situation like this, happened.
Gunshots ringing out, close enough they covered their ears, ducking to the ground, the sound of spent shells clacking against the floors, and the smell of heated gunpowder thick in the air.
The lights above them wavered, before turning a shade red, the emergency power having kicked on.
Ringing in her ears, Lila struggled moving, only hoisted from the ground by Jamie and Ròs, her chestnut eyes caught sight of someone moving through the hall, the intensity of the gunpowder strengthening as they came closer.
In the intense red light, Lila sees what looked like one of the corporals shambling towards them, empty eyes staring back through the red, raising up the M15 once again, before she fled with Jamie and Ròs.
Behind, the shambling corporal began shooting, the bullets ricocheting anything that got in their way, leaving destruction in their path.
Spent shells clattering on the ground, crunching under the feet of the shambling corporal as he went after the three.
"Lee! What's going on?" Lila heard the aloof giant in her head, panicking, as he heard the gunfire echoing from where he stood.
When he heard the answer, Theodore frantically guided the three away from the looming corporal, still firing his M15, though Jamie and Ròs estimated that the corporal won't have any bullets left to keep firing after this barrage.
Following Theodore's instructions, Lila led the two around a corner, sending them towards the dormitories, rows of locked doors, no time to pick them open, not enough adrenaline to break them down, and as they're running, Ròs spots shadows at the end of the hallway, sending them to a screeching halt.
They're about to take their chances and run the opposite way, hadn't Lila heard an authoritative, "Halt!"
Bright lights enveloped the hallway, forcing them into covering their eyes, as they see approaching silhouettes.
"Roslyn!" Ròs heard a familiar voice.
Jamie heard, "Corporal Dewitt!"
Hands over their heads, the three see the brigadiers, having located them, behind, Jamie and Ròs see familiar faces.
"Sir, what's going on?" Jamie called to Brigadier Perry as he joined his side.
Running a hand through his matted hair, Brigadier Perry informed him that the soldiers awoke from their medically induced comas, taking the nurses and doctors hostage, before breaking into the weapon locker.
"What happened to them?" Lila asked about the nurses and doctors, but the brigadier's answer didn't ease the tension as she's told by him that while some escaped from their clutches and alerted him and the others of what happened, it's his belief the unfortunate remaining doctors and nurses been locked into one of the rooms in the medical ward with high radioactivity.
Thus, preventing him and the others from rescuing them, though he doubted they'd be alive by the time they're even able to get to them.
Looking over, Lila sees Ròs talking with her father, the older brigadier, who didn't act like what a father would after the fact.
"If you'd listen to me…" Brigadier Ramsay showed displeasure over Ròs disobeying orders and freeing the imprisoned Theodore and Lila.
Ròs sharply told him, "If we didn't, they've died, and we wouldn't known what else to do!"
A sharp contrast from Lila and her dad, she sees how the two weren't acting like father and daughter, just two people with the same last name, it looked like.
Their squabbling ended quickly as it started, Brigadier Perry stopped them, boldly telling Brigadier Ramsay that they needed to focus on dealing with the affected soldiers, as the threat of the radioactivity spreading loomed.
Nodding, Brigadier Ramsay coordinated with him while Ròs rejoined Jamie's side, displeased with her father's appearance.