Beth's mind raced with fevered thoughts. Her mind weighed heavily on the growing fears about the fate of the scientists. It didn't help that Celia had been keeping track of the breaches and to sum, Beth's plan of a peaceful talk seemed to fall apart.

Pulling back her hair she looked around for Leon and the others. She hoped to speak to them immediately. She could not wait any longer for the Doctor and Sherlock to turn up again. She had to tell Leon and the others the truth. Under duress of a second death, hopefully they'll listen this time. They had to know and when they finally see reason, Colton will have to listen.

Beth was heading toward one of the storage rooms, perhaps they were there, she reasoned. She would be right and she would be incensed later when she heard Sherlock, "Of course it hurts!"

"Oh god," Beth whispered. Sherlock had been found. Leon and the others, though reasonable when calm and collected were a force to be reckoned with when it came to such situations. Beth could only pray as she barged into the storage room. She saw lying on the floor withering in pain, Sherlock, holding his gut as his face was heavily bruised.

"My god, what have you done to him?" Beth cried out as she knelt beside Sherlock. Leon looked at her confusingly, "We thought he was a rat."

"We gave him a shot," Callan and Joseph mustered. Beth scorned them as she said, "He is not the rat!"

"Well, who is then?" she was looked at. Sherlock mustered some of his strength to look at her as she said simply, "I am."

"Wait, Beth. You're the rat?" Leon pointed at her. To him it sounded like an oddball joke someone would tell during a stressful situation. Yet as he looked at Beth with her silver eyes leering into his, it wasn't a joke. "Okay, explain this to me, sister. We have god knows how many hours until Utopia goes bye-bye and you just now decide to tell us that you're the rat?"

Beth continued to leer at him as she said, "Leon, we have been blessed with a chance at a second life. The scientists don't deserve this; they have suffered enough from their nightmares. They have regretted this from ever happening. They don't need to die."

"And does Frankie know about the fact you went behind his and our backs to get Mr. Detective here?" Leon pointed at Sherlock. Beth shook her head, "No and I also enlisted the help of the Doctor."

"Beth, do you know what you're doing?" Joseph piped up as he glanced at Beth. Beth nodded. She said, "We were blinded by the Amber. We knew nothing but the pain we endured. Please, help me stop Frank from committing the most sinful act ever to be known by man."

"Too many people died," Callan agreed as he looked at them. He had lost his wife and his child. He had lost his humanity for what felt like centuries. The scientists had him kidnapped and Sofia murdered his daughter. But what well would it do for Callan to hold onto that pent up rage, what good would it do for his daughter and his wife to kill the now defenseless scientists. He had to agree with Beth. Too many died and what use would there be for more to die now.

Joseph nodded. He had lost his wife and children to his neighbor. He was the first to feel the effects of Amber. He saw what Amber did to anyone that came into contact with it. The ravens, the beetles, everything Amber touched caused terror for those concerned. Enough was enough. What good would it do now? The moment has passed. His daughters had grown up and his wife was now married to the bastard that put him in this situation. It was too late now. The only thing he can think to do was stop another mistake from happening. God willing would he allow another set of deaths to happen under his gaze?

"We're becoming the very things we've feared since we were turned," Joseph shook his head. He glanced at Sherlock as he was helped up by Beth. He realized then that he and the other two were for the past twenty minutes making Sherlock into a human punching bag. "We've already lost our humanity once. Why are we losing it again?"

Leon looked at them. His mind was fettered with the anguishing thoughts of being forced into the iron maiden and the Amber forcibly pumped through his veins as his body was compressed into a frame. He was being assembled like a Cyberman but unlike one he was fully aware of what was happening. Yet, his mind dwelled onto other things. He missed his mother. His mind dwelled on the fact that he was doing things that would make his mother disappointed. He was punching Sherlock like he was deadweight and almost killed him had he not solved his riddle. Joseph was right; they were becoming the things they feared. Monsters, without remorse or fear, no care in the world about consequences, just like the Cybermen that dwell on the surface.

Leon held the sides of his head as his paced around the room, "Okay fine. You got my attention. So killing them isn't going to make anything better. But what the hell's going on here. First we find a telegram from Sofia and find our way back here. Second here came you two. Third, now Utopia is about to go "pop"!"

Sherlock's mind quickly jumped at what Leon said. He said they found a telegram marked by Sofia. His mind was quickly piecing together the evidence it collaborated over the hours spent in Utopia. It then played itself. Sofia, the woman behind the Alpha Series and the misery that went on, planned it from the start. Sofia purposely allowed the Alphas to escape. In the confusion, Warden Ryan and several others were killed. They were the loose ends. Then, she waited until she heard about Colton being in Sherlock and John's universe before getting into contact with her political contacts. She wanted to incense them. She wanted them to come back. But before she would leave breadcrumbs for them to follow, she was going to deal with her other loose ends.

Sofia used the telegram to get some of the scientists to come back to Utopia under false pretenses. Given her prowess, Sofia left them to fend for themselves against the likes of the Betas and whatever else was lurking in Utopia. With the graffiti found around some of the wings, it wasn't long before it settled on Sherlock's mind. The scientists who willingly came back were killed and their bodies likely hidden. As for the scientists he and the Doctor were trying to save, they were the ones who wouldn't dare stick their necks out. Since they wouldn't come under their own volition, Sofia arranged for the Alphas to find her telegram with the coordinates to Utopia. She would then lead them to the remaining scientists and had her and her daughter captured.

It then dawned on Sherlock about Emma. Emma wasn't responsible for what happened; she was a young girl then. Yet, Sherlock remembered the love letters he and the Doctor found. Emma was the illegitimate daughter of Sofia and Andrew Ryan. And because of this, she was a loose end, too. This was why Sofia had her brought to Utopia too. It was also why Sofia didn't help her daughter from becoming Beth's new body. Sofia wanted this to happen. What better way to have a clear slate than to eliminate everyone tied to you in a fell swoop?

But then, why didn't Sofia escape alive?

The answer lies in the recording tapes found in her office. Sofia would take every opportunity that presented itself to set off the downfall of Utopia. She would escape Colton and the other's clutches with her daughter and head toward her office where she would set off the chain of events under the guise of sending help. Then, she and Emma would be caught again and here are where the tapes come in.

Sofia likely planned to feign distress when she and Emma were captured. Using Emma, Sofia extended time she had before she would make her escape. She put on a good show to make Colton and Beth think she was a good mother trying to fight for her daughter's life. She presumably figured she'd just deal with a minor headache from her head slamming against the table by Colton. When Colton and Beth left Sofia alone, she tried to make her grand escape.

The irony would come soon after. Colton's nasty head slam would've set off another chain of events. This time, the chain of events would occur in Sofia's own head. His unnatural strength from the Amber caused Sofia's brain to slam against the cranium and so it began to swell. It swelled until it could not swell no further and the fragile veins and flesh burst and so blood flooded her cranium. She died from a head injury induced by Colton's rage, Sherlock summed for those who weren't medically savvy as he was.

She died before she could make her escape and so her efforts were in vain.

"How are we going to convince Frankie," Leon gestured toward Beth and Sherlock. Beth chewed on her lip as she answered first, "I was going to pull this card but I couldn't. If I did too soon Frank would've killed them outright to protect me."

"What card is that?" Joseph asked her. Callan's brow rose. Sherlock looked at her. It then wrote itself before his very eyes.

"Beth, how many months are you?" Sherlock asked her. She answered, "Only three."

The reactions to the other three men were the same. Sherlock can't fault them for their reactions, even he was surprised.

"Okay, we got that going for us. But what about the scientists, how can we save them?" Joseph gestured toward Sherlock. Sherlock quickly reply, "I'll explain along the way. We can't dawdle around any longer."

"I agree," Beth nodded.

They would find Colton and with Sherlock's evidence that it was all a ploy and Beth's secret, they planned to convince him from committing what Sofia wanted.