Dying of the Light Page #2

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is a separate disease.

It's better?

F.T.D. is much more aggressive.

Much more? How much more?

- Did anyone come with you today?

- No.

Family is very important

in a situation like this.

I don't have any brothers or sisters.

No children. My work is my family.

This frontal... F.T.D., is there

anything I should be on the lookout for?

You will be subject to overreactions

or inappropriate reactions,

blank spells. Perhaps you've

noticed this already.

Mood swings,

unreliable sensory perception.

"Unreliable sensory perception."

That's what it's called.

There are support groups,

social services here in Philadelphia...

in fact, wherever you go.

I've spoken with Dr. Gross,

Nathan Gross, in the special care wing.

Now after we're finished, you'll pay

him a visit. He's expecting you.

There's no reason to be alone in this.

- So what is prescribed?

- Usually serotonin inhibitors...

Zoloft, Paxil... or antidepressants.

But those are drugs for crazy people,

manic-depressives. That's not me.

Okay, let's get that clear.

That's not who I am.

Look, these medications address

the behavioral symptoms.

- Not the disease?

- That's correct.

Hey. Have you seen Lake?

- He hasn't been here all day.

- Do you know where he is? Did he call in?

I'm busy, sir. Sorry.

Yeah?

Evan, where are you? I've been

trying to reach you. I left messages.

I've been busy.

- Something's come up.

- What?

I don't wanna talk about

it over an open line.

Where are you? I'll come meet you.

- Evan, where are you?

- Diamond Tuesdays.

You're at Ruby Tuesdays?

Yes, I'm at Ruby Tuesdays.

That's what I just said.

Okay, which one?

The one in...

Arlington.

- Ev.

- Yeah?

- Excuse me.

- Yeah?

Get this man something to eat, please,

- and a cup of coffee.

- You got it.

Can I clear that for you?

- Thank you.

- You're welcome.

That wasn't very sociable.

What's going on?

- Nothing.

- Do you want to talk about it?

What is so goddamn important?

This "something" that has come up.

There's been a possible hit on Banir.

Over the last year,

five requests for deferiprone

- which is not too unusual...

- No, it doesn't affect the anemia.

- It's just the iron deficiency.

- Right, but the same source...

the man requesting it was Kenyan,

but the doctor is in Bucharest University

Hospital, a research hospital.

Decitabine and Azacitidine, which are

only used for clinical trials...

- Mediterranean anemia.

- Thalassemia,

which is hereditary, which we

know Muhammad Banir carries,

even though he has

been dead for 20 years.

You know his father died of it.

And Abdikarim, the man procuring the drug,

was a suspect in a Nigerian fraud ring.

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