Outside the magnet room, Jack smashes a tube of the phage on the ground and runs as everyone jumps away from it. He takes the jug and runs for the elevator to the ceiling level to access the sprinkler reserves. When they block him, he begins climbing a ladder instead, Ricky grabbing at his feet. A version of Julia appears in front of him, and then a smaller copy of her appears. He feels the pinpricks as he climbs, but he can still breathe. He remembers Julia saying, “Save my babies,” (345) and keeps going. He kicks Ricky and breaks his nose. Then he threatens to throw the phage tube at Vince, but Vince manages to tackle him. Jack gets away and dumps the virus into the sprinkler system before descending on the elevator. 

He takes out a lighter as he talks with Julia, who keeps asking where Mae is. The men walk in circles around him. Jack holds the lighter up to a sprinkler, but nothing happens. Julia says Ricky turned the sprinklers off as they grab Jack and hold him down. Then the assembly line overheats, and the glass tubes start exploding; because Ricky turned the safety system off, it is now spreading the virus that has been reproducing this whole time.