We only partially succeeded, of course. There is no magical happy ending here.

Itex was gone; the people who had staffed it were duly tried and locked up, the people who were funding it stripped of their money and their power and their reputations.

The research was kept, held safe and regulated by ethics committees, but used, as they'd done with Mengele years before.

The captives were free, and learning to live in the world. The bodies were buried, the news was no longer new.

And the world moved on.

We couldn't move on. We had nowhere to move to.