[Tom Chandler talks to President Michener about what happened to him in the early stages of the pandemic]
You blame yourself. You think you could've done something differently. Somehow, all those people would be alive... Your wife, your daughters? What could you have done differently, Jeff?
Nothing. Nothing.
We're going to New Orleans. And you're going to help us defeat whoever it is that twisted you all around, but we are never gonna get there until you face whatever it is you can't let go of.
There's nothing... Nothing to let go of!
It was your son, wasn't it?
He was in Michigan. Summer session at the university.
You had him brought down to Florida.
No.
Against CDC protocols!!
No.
There was no way to test him, but he seemed okay, and you let him in the stadium.
That's not... that's not what happened!
I have the records from the White House.
No, you're wrong!
Two days after you brought him to Florida, there was a massive outbreak in Ann Arbor.
No, please! Please! That's not what happened!
The security details... they were lax! You couldn't have known. He infected everyone in that stadium... it was hot! They were careless with their masks! Your wife, your daughters.
Please! No! No!
It was all on you.
That's not what happened! Stop it!
You were the one who was supposed to protect everybody.
Stop it.
And then you stumbled into the immunes, and they told you that it was all meant to be and that you were chosen and your children were not and that all of this was destiny. And it was easy for you to believe because you needed to believe it...
Because it was the only way to go on.
There's another way now. With us.
I killed my daughters.
I know.
No. No. You don't.
Then tell me. It's just you and me... Nobody else. Tell me.
After my son died... And my daughters started getting the symptoms... My wife... She begged me to put them out of their misery b-b-before it became... And I did it. [Voice breaking] With my own bare hands. I smothered them in their sleep. But Hollie... She woke up. A-and she struggled. And that's the last thing she ever felt was her father betraying her. [Sniffles] So... What do you say about that?
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