Not important.

"That's not important," the man said. Meredith nodded. Of course not. She took her hand from the window and turned to face him. "What did you do to me?"

"Come, dear, I think your friend June is anxious to speak with you. We can explain everything shortly." He held her hand and they walked out of the room together.

As they traversed a small corridor, Meredith reflected. She wasn't freaked out anymore, or even upset. She was definitely very curious about her state, but nothing more. She felt a warm glow of happiness at the thought of seeing June. June was so upset! She couldn't wait to tell her that everything was ok.

She entered the chamber where her audience had been. Everyone seemed so happy to see her, except June. June was still crying. The lady next to her said something and June leapt to her feet and rushed to embrace her.

"Oh my God," June blubbered through tears. "Oh my God, Meredith, I'm so sorry!"

Meredith hugged her back. "For what?" she asked quizzically. June was her friend. Why would she be apologizing?

"I- you, you never would have gotten involved in any of this if it wasn't for me!" June pulled back and studied her face. A look of horror grew on June's as they looked at one another. "My God, Meredith, what did they do to you? Are you ok?"

Meredith smiled brightly. "Of course I am! I'm great! Why wouldn't I be?" That only made June more upset. She turned to the crowd.

"What the fuck did you people do to her? She's some kind of zombie or something! Meredith, do you know who you are? Do you know who I am?"

"I'm Meredith, your unpaid intern. You're June, my boss at the newspaper. We're friends and we're here to investigate this pharmaceutical factory," she informed her cheerfully. "Or we were until they caught us. Did you forget?"

June stared into her eyes with desperation. Meredith was sad to see how upset her boss was. "June, I'm ok! I don't know why you're so upset. I feel fine, really."

June stormed up to the man who had spoken to Meredith at the diner. "What the fuck did you do to her? Was that like some kind of lobotomy ****?" Shock flashed across her face. "Are you gonna do that to me?"

The man laughed and Meredith frowned. It wasn't nice to laugh at people when they were upset. She told him so and he patted her on the head, which felt nice.

"Of course it's not nice, Meredith. I'm not nice. And to answer June's question, we have something much more elaborate planned for you. You just happened to bring us a perfect test subject for our new ataraxia compound."

He said he wasn't nice, but he told Meredith she was a perfect subject. That was awfully nice of him. She still didn't like that June was so upset, though.

"June, it's seriously fine! I feel great right now. I wish you weren't so worried about me!"

June ignored her and continued to interrogate the man. "You know, if I don't show up for work tomorrow they'll know where we are. You're in deep shit no matter how you play this, but letting us go is probably the only way you won't end up in the electric chair."

The man laughed again. "I think you and Meredith here might have some catching up to do. Why don't you ladies follow me to your bedroom?"

The two immediately complied and exited the chamber with him.