Inferno Page #2

I like things tidy.

Thank you for helping me

at the hospital.

That was very courageous.

It was just reflexes.

Very sorry.

Very...

...sorry.

I'm having visions.

It's the head trauma.

You won't be able to trust

your own thoughts for a while.

Saw a plague mask.

It's the kind that medieval doctors

wore during the Black Death.

You said something about that.

You were talking in the cab.

It was mostly incoherent...

...but I did hear the word "mask."

anything else?

Bodies.

And blood and fire...

...and hell.

And there's a woman.

Yeah, there's a woman,

and she seemed...

Seek and find.

It all seems so dangerous.

Look, you gotta have somebody

we should call.

I do?

Why?

Was I wearing my watch

when I was brought to the hospital?

No.

- You weren't wearing a watch.

- Oh.

It was important to me.

It was a gift from my parents.

Look, you should go ahead

and clean up.

Your clothes are covered in blood but I

think I've got something that might fit you.

Once you get dressed,

we'll call the police, okay?

Uh,no,no.

The consulate.

Right.

The consulate.

Coffee. Mm.

Hmm. Ignazio?

"What we stole is safely hidden,

as am I. Paradise Twenty-five."

"Now they're after me too."

"ls safely hidden."

"As am I."

What we stole?

Ignazio?

I've left your things in the bathroom.

Try these.

Whose are they?

A friend's.

Does he live here?

- Sometimes.

- Oh.

Sometimes, huh?

You're being rude.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I'm not like this.

You kind of are.

I found this in my old jacket.

It's a bio tube.

They're used to transport

dangerous substances.

What are you doing with it?

I have no idea.

It's a high-end unit.

Government issue.

It's got thumbprint recognition:

Security in case it's lost or stolen.

Tubes like this can only be opened

by a specified individual.

Well, it sure as hell isn't me.

- Then why do you have it?

- I don't know.

I'm getting the number

for the consulate.

No, please. Wait.

I have waited. This isn't right.

Why do you have it?

Where did you get it?

There is a simple way to find out

if this thing belongs to me.

Either my thumb will open it,

or it won't.

Open it? Are you insane?

If it's a viral agent,

will it be released if I open it?

No.

No, there'd be an inner sleeve.

Maybe even two.

Before I put myself in anyone's hands,

I wanna know what this thing is...

...and what I'm involved with.

That makes sense, doesn't it?

Yes.

So we agree...

...we're opening it.

Well, that explains it. It is mine.

This is a cylinder seal...

...made of ivory.

No.

It's bone.

Human.

Three-headed, man-eating Satan.

A common image from the Middle Ages.

Associated with the Black Plague.

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