Robert is taken to Elizabeth Sinskey, Director-General of the World Health Organization, and receives an extensive explanation of what is going on: Bertrand Zobrist, who committed suicide a week ago, was a mad scientist and Dante fanatic who engineered a new black death to cleanse the world of overpopulation. Elizabeth raided Zobrist's deposit box, found the cylinder, and flew Robert to Florence to follow the clues. But Robert stopped calling in after meeting with Marta and Il Duomino, and WHO feared he betrayed them and was working with Bertrand's supporters to unleash the plague.


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