Perry burst through the office door and immediately booted the computer, surely there was something too explain James's sudden exit from the vault. Alas there was nothing just old medical reports and testing data. Perry looked around the room frantically in anger. Finally he became so angry he picked up a nearby hot plate and threw it at a framed bible quote on the wall, the bible quote that everything he learned as a child was based upon. The quote fell from the wall revealing a safe, but not a safe like the others in the vault. Most required a key, but this one had no key hole. Just a dial with numbers zero to nine on the circumference. Perry thought for a moment before moving to the safe. He twisted the dial three times and the safe popped open. Twenty one six, I am the alpha and the omega, typical of his father really. Inside Perry found a bag containing a holotape, a bottle of scotch and some bottle caps. He didn't have time to sort it so he stuffed the sack into his bag before leaving the clinic and headed for the atrium.
Once in the atrium Perry ducked behind a pillar, just in time for the Holden's not to see him. Perry peered round the pillar, Tom was holding Marys wrists as if to plead with her.
"Come on Mary we're getting out of here just like the doc", before Perry could intervene tom ran for the entrance like a madman "its me tom Holden I'm leaving the vault and no one is going to stop me". Seconds later a burst of gunfire signalled toms death. Perry acted quickly by grabbing Mary, gagging her with one hand and the spoke quietly in her ear, "don't make a sound, stay quiet and return to your quarters quickly" then Perry let her go before she bolted down the corridor Perry had come from quietly sobbing. Once again Perry's anger was boiling over; before he knew it both guards were laid unconscious at his feet their guns in his hands. One pointing directly at officer wolfs head. He holstered one pistol in his satchel but kept the other aimed at wolf. He thought about Jonas, Mrs. Taylor and tom Holden. So many people dead to create a lie, a lie. He knew what the overseer had planned. The vault wasn't spiralling out of control during an unstoppable radroach infestation, it was all under control. All engineered by the overseer to gain a perfect result. Make chaos here. Kill those surplus people there. Make it look like Perry and his father were to blame. The perfect way to remove unwanted vault residents. Seeing tom's lifeless body angered Perry even more, he desperately wanted to shoot. But he couldn't, why?
Then an unrecognisable voice that sounded similar to his own but different somehow echoed in the back of his mind. "You can't do it because you're better than then, now stop wasting time and go. Peter immediately made for the stairs. He was almost across the mezzanine and into the server room when a pair of blinds parted to show Alan macks surly figure staring angrily back at Perry. He began banging on the glass and shouting at Perry "you, this is your fault and your stupid fathers. He had to go leave the vault didn't he, you've ruined everything. Guards he's over here come get him!". Perry could control his rage no longer. "Fuck you Allen, this shit isn't my fault. The overseers gone crazy he's killing everyone. And your idiot son killed one of the only remaining doctors. You want to talk about destroying the vault, your son doomed everyone by killing Jonas, and as for your other son, he's a nasty thug. You should've been neutered to remove your violent stupidity from the vault gene pool asshole!" Allen stared in stunned disbelief at what Perry had just said. He was dumbstruck with no come back as Perry headed for the admin corridor.