CHAPTER 96

THE SITUATION WAS DRIVING HIM CRAZY. As he ran toward the stage where the President was, he couldn't stop thinking about Allison Bates, the woman who had planted the bugs in the White House, that somehow it had to do with her...

The crowd was becoming an angry mass, a mob of madmen. People tried to climb onto the stage like animals and Kenan was supported by security guards, after losing his balance while walking backwards. As he tried to think of something, Gregory got distracted, because while he was doing so, many people were trembling, in a clear joint reaction to some strange momentary stimulus.

This has to do with the sound... — Gregory speculated, shrewdly, in his thoughts.

He remembered Allison Bates... she was screaming:

— Get them out, get them out of there...

The whole time she had that sudden outburst in the interrogation room... His mind was finally making sense of it all. Had she received orders from someone or had she been artificially induced to do that? That loud noise that was being transmitted on Fifth Avenue had a purpose, it wasn't just to cause a commotion, he thought.

The reaction they themselves were experiencing in that distant improvised room in a building next to the stage, just by hearing it on TV, already showed the power the man had with the unknown technique. There is some influence of this sound on our minds... some kind of mental key that responds to all that noise... At that moment, from what was seen on television through the only camera recording the event, confusion took hold at the event. The politicians fled and the people were suffering from an incipient madness. Gregory Evans called Martin:

— Marty, I need you to do something for me — he said after Martin answered — do some research on sound and the influence of sound on the human brain and send it to me on my cell phone.