Al and Brad start showing subtle signs of Amalgamation, but Amanda and Herman are  unaffected. Amidst the inferno of ex-XAT agent Amalgams running amok, Al and Brad pledge their allegiance as XAT agents to protect Amanda and Herman until they are safely out of XAT grounds.
That scared me more
than anything else. And yet...
لقد أخافني ذلك أكثر من أي 
...شيء آخر. ومع ذلك
Das war das Einzige,
wovor ich Angst hatte … Und doch …