Episode 5

“Chairwoman Danielle. I have some great news.”

Danielle Anders looked up from her desk at ‘Professor’ Button who had entered her office, without a facemask. She gave him a stern look and replied:

- How dare you enter my office without a facemask? You should be self-isolating after your taxpayer-funded encounter with Emily the Escort.

Professor Button:

- Yes, but I have such great news to share with you. We finally found a young person who died with Coldvir-20.

Danielle:

- This doesn’t happen to be Jeffrey Wang who was murdered by a fake nurse administering government-sanctioned opium overdoses?

Professor Button:

- How did you know?

Danielle:

- The police commissioner told me. They found a syringe with ‘Coldvir-20 treatment for elderly’ next to Jeffrey’s body, without his fingerprints on it. Furthermore, our spy drones filmed a fake nurse giving Jeffrey the poison.

Professor Button:

- That is great news. A deluded serial killer will bring up the death rates among the young and we can justify another six months of lockdown.

Danielle:

- But what about Police Commissioner Smitton?

Professor Button:

- Tell him to not investigate Jeffrey’s murder. He should focus police resources on arresting people not wearing masks or people whining online about your rule.

Danielle:

- This is a genius plan, Button. This is why I gave an illiterate sycophant an honorary professor title. Let’s have some champagne and celebrate our first young person dying from Coldvir-20.

Professor Button:

- With many more to come? Muahaha

Danielle:

- Yes. Muahaha

After saying this, Danielle corked up the champagne and the two of them spent the next hour drinking and laughing evil laughter.

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“We cannot let you into Grand Chancellor Hotel Quarantine unless you provide a valid medical ID. There is a rumour about a fake nurse murdering Coldvir patients.” An uninterested police officer told Nathan.

Nathan turned around a walked off. Murdering Emily the escort was crucial to his plans of avenging his grandma and proving that Coldvir was dangerous to young people. She was, after all, the main source of the Coldvir outbreak in the suburb of Brunswick.

Nathan had an epiphany. While he could not gain access to the hotel as a fake nurse, there was no harm in trying to blend in as a fake security guard. Having come to this conclusion, Nathan went to the dollar store and bought a cheap black T-shirt with ‘security’ printed on the front and back. He also bought a cheap phone with a sim-card so he could have a fake WhatsApp conversation where he hired himself as a security guard at the Grand Chancellor.

With his new T-shirt and fake credentials, Nathan approached the same police officer as before. Nathan:

- Hi. I am here to work as a security guard on level 2. Here is the text message from the guy who hired me.

The police officer looked at the text, gave Nathan a sceptical look, and replied:

- Didn’t you try to gain access posing as a fake nurse just an hour ago?

Nathan:

- Absolutely not, it must have been someone else.

Police Officer:

- I see. You bloody lefty hipsters all look the same, don’t you? Come on in.

Nathan thought of ranting about the police officer's remark, but he didn't want to draw attention to himself when he was there to commit a murder so he kept calm and carried on.

As Nathan reached level 2 of the Grand Chancellor the Middle Eastern security guard Abdullah approached him:

- Hey, brah. Why are you here? This is a restricted area, brah.

Nathan:

- I am here to work as a security guard. Mahmoud sent me this text.

Abdullah had a quick look at Nathan’s phone, gave him a nod and replied:

- Oh, I thought you were one of Emily’s clients. I guess I’ll have a smoke break then.

Having said this, the guard took the lift down to the lobby and Nathan was free to approach Emily’s room.

Nathan knocked on Emily’s door and she opened it. The trashy Emily spoke:

- Are you working here or have you come for the Coldvir-20 special? It’s $99 for an hour.

Nathan reminded himself that he was against the purchase of sexual favours, and besides, he was broke, so he replied:

- I am working here.

Emily:

- Okay, I’ll give you a 15-minute freebie. Make it quick. My best customer, Professor Button, will be here in an hour.

As he watched Emily get undressed, Nathan had a moral dilemma. As a gender studies student, it was reprehensible that he visited a woman of the night. On the other hand, he was a ****** about to become a serial killer so he had already thrown the morals out the window. After doing the deed with Emily, Nathan smothered her with a pillow and left the Grand Chancellor Hotel, after stealing her money.

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