"Frightened? I don't think they'd dare try and hurt you."
She laughed sardonically. "You heard the verdict in there. I'm sure they don't even think I'm worth bothering to hurt."
"Then what?"
"It's the damn drugs, Jared. Starting with Estronate. Think of how many human guinea pigs there are in this one notebook. We contacted as many of the women as we could find, but there are others we just Couldn't locate-and, I'm sure, other drugs. How many women out there are just starting to bruise? How many people-men and women — are developing weird tumors from medications they are trusting to make them well or keep them healthy?"
Jared gestured helplessly. "Kate, there are injustices all around.
You've done what you could do."
"It's not enough. Jared, these drugs are like time bombs-unpredictable le time bombs capable of exploding inside anyone. I've got to keep after Redding. I've got to find some way to turn some heads around here, and if not here, then publicly. Somewhere, there's got to be a way.
There's-"
"What is it, Kate?"
"What about an ad?"
"An ad?"
"In The Globe, The Herald, all the Boston and suburban papers-a classified ad asking women to search through their medicine cabinets for Omnicenter medications we can analyze. Maybe that's where the rope is to hang that bastard and put the other companies on notice.
Right in those medicine cabinets. If enough Redding products were found contaminating enough Omnicenter medications, even the FDA panel wouldn't be able to ignore the company's involvement. I'm going to do it, Jared.
As soon as we get back to Boston, I'm going to do it. And if it doesn't work, I'll try something else."
She glanced back down the corridor just as Redding was wheeled into the elevator. That sound you keep hearing in your ears is my footsteps, Cyrus, she was thinking. You had better get used to it. the end.