who is arrested on the Petronella Page show. At Prosser's offices, an employee suddenly goes on a violent rampage and is subdued by Alan's gun. Hiwey, they can see that is not an isolated case since outside the office, Denver residents have gone insane, just like the villagers in Noshri. In the chaos, Philip drives Pete home, but once he gets to his apartment, his wife, Denise, reveals that their son Harold has viciously murdered his sister Jodie. Alan and his assistant Dorothy die after get trapped in the company's warehouse, which is set on fire. October The Masons are holed up in their apartment for days with the rotting corpse of their daughter. Eventually, some soldiers arrive and inform them that they are the first living people to be found in the building. Philip's friend and regular doctor, Doug McNeil, reveals that Denver's water supply has been contaminated with Ergot. Philip is told that he is being called to active duty as a soldier to supervise cleanup from the rioting. Hugh wanders back to his home and finds out that Maud has gone insane. After falsely claiming to be reporting for duty, he is exposed and put on a work gang with other suspected Trainites. Peg comes across him, and he reveals that Carl had given Decimus Jones a carton of Nutripon as a Christmas present, which explains why he suddenly ran across a freeway. November The United States is now on the brink of collapse. Ossie sets a bomb at a public building and then dies from fever and delirium. Philip is on patrol when another soldier accuses him of poisoning the water with his filters and kills him. Pete surprises his pregnant wife, Jeannie, with a microwave oven. She uses it to cook a chicken but suddenly collapses. At the hospital, it is revealed that the microwave was shoddily built, and radiation leaked out and cooked Jeannie's unborn infant in the uterus. One morning, Pete is discovered by Carl in the living room scribbling notes from a book and says that he is learning how to make a bomb. Peg is covering Austin's trial. Hector quickly realizes that he was not kidnapped by the real Austin Train and reveals he had been coerced into saying that he was. Austin takes the opportunity to make a speech at his heavily-televised trial. He pleads for humanity to stop destroying