"I extracted serum from the victim and restored as much of the drug's composition as I could from it."
"Based on the DNA sequencing results and calculations using the Biological Algorithm, the drug's components-that is, the virus carrying the specified sequence-are exactly the same as the sequence we used on the iguanas in the Lesser Antilles.
"This is a counterfeit, but the counterfeiter simply copied this stretch of DNA crudely and made it into a drug.
"You have to understand, every time we conduct an experiment, we need to collect the test subject's DNA sequence and use the Decay Algorithm. Only after rigorous calculations can we confirm what actually gets loaded into the virus sequence.
"It's like this."
Peter drew a whole lot of things on the whiteboard, but Captain Stacy still looked utterly bewildered.
"Virus? So you've been messing around with viruses this whole time?"
Lier thought for a moment, picked up another whiteboard marker, and began drawing on the board.
"Captain, you can think of it as a kind of bullet-a 'gene' bullet. You need the right mixture to get the gunpowder inside.
"And only the right gunpowder will hit the target we need."
On the whiteboard, bullets flew out and, pulled by gravity, landed in the right place.
The initial velocity affected the trajectory, and the initial velocity was largely determined by the kinetic energy supplied by the gunpowder.
Now he understood. Stacy rubbed his chin. "If the gunpowder mixture is wrong, the bullet will hit somewhere else. I get it. So the lab used this shoddy gunpowder formula that night?
"But how do we prove it? I mean, if this gunpowder formula isn't made public, there's no way to prove the lab director violated protocol."
The gunpowder formula was the method for synthesizing the Lizard Serum,