Kevin Chau

Lab Rat — Barbie Brill

Even Dr. Lorne Voss, the Nobel-hyped director of the Brill Lab’s neuro-pharmacology division, had made that mistake exactly once.

Not because she carried a weapon. Because she carried a notebook. barbie brill lab rat

Two weeks later, Dr. Voss summoned her to his office. Floor 19, corner suite with a view of the river. He offered her tea in a bone china cup. Even Dr

The doors closed. The lab rat had left the building—not to hide, but to hunt. Because she carried a notebook

And somewhere in the Brill Biomedical servers, a scheduled task deleted the last traces of Voss’s original macaque study. Too late, though.

“Barbara,” he said, smiling with perfect teeth. “I’ve heard you’ve been digging through some legacy data.”

Behind her, in Dr. Voss’s office, the phone was already ringing. Reporters. Regulators. A board member asking why the stock price was dropping.