How It All Goes Down
Behind the Door
- The room is completely dark, but Alex can see a light at the end of the tunnel.
- There's a loud buzzing coming from the lit area, so he reaches an open air conditioner grill (left, again, by good old Uncle Ian) and climbs inside.
- Alex emerges in an all-white, sterile laboratory. He sees one of the metal boxes and opens it, but its empty interior proves that "whatever had been delivered was already in use" (12.7).
- A voice comes on the intercom announcing that it's 7:00PM—decontamination time. Dun dun dun…
- Alex can see workers loading test tubes into the Stormbreakers and finally realizes that his uncle wasn't worried about computer viruses—he was worried about biological warfare. Gulp.
- Suddenly, Alex feels gun at his back. The guard hesitates, so Alex launches a Chuck Norris-style kick into his gut and hustles away.
- Alex wants to get back to his room so he can use the Game Boy to contact MI6, but his path is blocked by three more guards.
- Alex high-tails it out of there and realizes that he's standing on the other end of the locked door in the basement.
- The guards follow him into the room, but they don't see him. One guard unlocks the door and goes through, and Alex slips through before it closes.
- Now that he's back in a familiar area, Alex doesn't have too much trouble making it outside. He sees men loading Stormbreakers into cargo planes—there's no doubt that this is "the end of the assembly line" (12.39).
- Finally, he makes it back into his room and grabs his stuff. The only problem is that Mr. Grin is outside waiting and promptly clocks him in the jaw.