MAUNA KEA, HAWAII

FIVE YEARS AGO...

Te� meagain...

...whythis is

NECE�ARY?

Becausethe scientist

you’re lking forlives here and has

cut o� a� contactwith the world.

“Scientist?”Rea�y? He’s ahermit on a

mountainside.

Who hasn’tpublished aTHiNG in ten

years.

isolatinghimself fromsociety has

a�owed him tocontinue hisresearch.

Right.His research.On MorphicFields, yes?

An alreadydiscredited-- Remember

our purpose,Randal.

I justdon’t know howlearning about

morphic fields wi�help undo--

it isn’tabout undoinganything. What

is past ispast.

And it isn’tjust learningabout Morphic

Fields. This is justyour FiRST stop.

YourJOURNEYhas justbegun.

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

TODAY.

Lab isowned by one

Doctor Charles K�fer,but the DEAD BODY’si.D. belonged to one

Ma� Dalton. Laba�istant.

His i.D.?

Yeah, wecan’t matchthe face yet,

because...

...we�...

...you cans� why.

Why isthere almost

no BL�D?

You gotme, Detective.

S� if wecan find this

Doctor K�fer. I’�take a l�k at

the body.

Knockyourself

OUT.

What thefuck?

Thatcan’t beright.

Son ofa bitch...

The headca�ot be s�n,

but it shows up inMagnetic Resonance

imaging andUltrasound.

But what’sthe cause of

death? Clearly, THiSisn’t actua�y awound at a�.

Can’t besure. I expect there’ssome sign on the head

itself, so when we’ve imagedit as best we can with the

t ls that DO work, Imay have answers.

But therewas something in

the BL�D. A virus,maybe a

retrovirus.

Could it bea toxin? Couldhe have b�n

poisoned?

Unclear.I’ve never s�nanything like it.

he�, it could justbe a DiSEASE.

A diseasethat...?

Hey don’tl k at me.I just WORK

here.

DetectiveHu�man!

Any progre�on the Headle�

Horseman?

Fingerprintsshow the victim was in

fact Ma�hew Dalton, thelab a�istant. He once workedin a federal research facility,

so we got lucky hisprints were on file.

No signof Doctor

K fer, Dalton’sbo�.

And theM.E. just gave

me a runaround onCause of Death.

Yeah,I saw his

preliminary findings.I’m ca�ing for HELP

on this one.

Yougo�a

give me--

Mi�ing heads?Viruses in the system?

if this iS a disease,I want some backupbefore it SPREADS.

it’s NOT adisease. if anything,it’s an experiment

gone wrong.

But K fer’s labhad zero notes onwhatever he was

researching. The onlything we found was this

one guy’s NAME.

DoctorRandal

Horne...? Yeah.Let me atleast--

Nope.I’m not waiting.

You go ahead andfind this Horne.

But me...?I’m ca�ing forsome BACKUP.

CENTERS FORDISEASE CONTROL

DRUID HILLS, GEORGIA

Aninvisible

head? is thisa joke?

it’s nota joke. it’s aretrovirus.

The autopsyshowed that the

corpse had a retro-virus in his bl�d.

Take a l�k.

Rea�y?How did they

even get a�e�to the Carpenter

Trials?

Head toNew York and

find out.

I’� n�da forensicspecialist.

I’ma�igning

you--

As longas it’snot... invisible

head?I’m iN.

...Hogarth?

I loveyou t�,bu�y.

Shutup.

NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL.

WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER.

DoctorRandal Horne...?

This ishis last known

place ofemployment.

So�y.That wasbeforemy time.

Perhapsif you talked

to HumanResources...

I did.I talked with H.R.,

and the Administration.No one gave me ANYTHiNG,

except that he usedto work here. in

cardiology.

We­,I’m not sureI’m able tohelp you.

Do yous� this BADGE?I’m a Detective.

I workHOMiCiDE.

That mean’ssomeone is DEAD.And this Doctor

Horne may be ableto HELP me find

out why.

So you’dbe�er find a

way to help meor I’­ haul

your--

Detective!Detective!

I’m DoctorJames Lucas...I knew Randal

Horne.

Before hewalked away from

medicine five years ago,Randal Horne was themost bri�iant doctor

I’d ever met.

Andhe KNEW

it.

A geniuswith ZERObedsidema�er.

Unle� he wasdealing with a rep from

a pharmaceutical company.For them, he could turn

on the charm.

So y.There’s nosmokingin here.

I know.No smokinganywhere ina hospital.

Then why...?Never mind.

Any ideawhere Horne

is now?

Not a clue.He went on some

worldwide journey.Probably to avoidlosing his license

to practice.

Losing hislicense? But you

said he wasBRi�iANT.

He was.

But evenso... he did

Ki� apatient.

You haveGOT tos� this.

Or nots� it. it’s

crazy—the head,it’s in-fucking-

visible.

Are you SUREwe should be doing

this? I mean, I’m not sureI even WANT to s� it. Andwe could get in trouble.

Couldn’t we?

Bert?

Gotcha. God,kid, you’re easy

to scare.

So. Not.Fu�y.

Ready?

Hey,Merlin.

I’m so�ythis is so late.

Long day.

Stop it,you li�le

freak.

Merlin?Ssh.

it’s okay,boy.

You’ve reachedRandal Horne. The

world is fu of mysteries.One of them wi be

solved once you leavea me�age.