In order to restore the company's image and revive market confidence, Carlton Drake chose to accept an exclusive interview. He had even selected Eddie Brock, the reporter who had been making the biggest splash in New York City recently.
This reporter's editorials categorized the attitudes and past actions of major corporations and conglomerates into the human camp and the Vampire camp, sparking widespread public debate time and again.
Although his news coverage had lost some momentum lately, his sharp, incisive writing was still greatly admired. As long as he could win over this reporter, he could bring a positive impact to the Life Foundation.
However, this young British man with brown skin never imagined that Eddie Brock had seen confidential internal documents from a lawsuit on the personal computer of his lawyer girlfriend, Anne Weying.
That was because the law firm Anne Weying worked for represented the Life Foundation. The confidential document included the prosecutors' case against the Life Foundation, as well as the law firm's response strategy.
Just as S.H.I.E.L.D. had dealt with the trouble at the Los Angeles FBI office, the current United States policy toward Vampires and Werewolves was to kill them on sight, with no room for mercy. Only a very small number of white-listed Vampires were exceptions.
But how to handle the Vampire Faction, which was still human, remained an undefined gray area. Such matters were rarely discussed openly, because the Blue-Blooded Aristocracy and powerful elites had their eyes on Vampire inheritance as well.
Carlton Drake had thought that once he got rid of the Vampires, he would be able to take complete control of the Life Foundation. Little did he know that many others had also spotted this opportunity and wanted to legally seize the entire Life Foundation, or at least demand a share.