"The bacterium doesn't cause symptoms in most people for at least 3 hours post-infection, up to 5 hours depending on one's metabolism, so you're down to 13-15 hours now. If they realize they were exposed and they're not already vomiting--since the toxin peaks at 6 hours post-exposure--they have to find the toolkit, and it takes at minimum for there to be anything effective, 18 hours. In the meantime, they will steadily decompensate and the chances of anyone being alive by then approaches zero."

Julian can do numbers. He does them very well and always has, though it's not clear where he got the ability from. It makes talking to Tony very simple, easy. They can speak on the same level.

Now getting him to understand? A different story.

"I think we have to scrap this, or else have an antidote partially done for them to find." He's not sure of the entertainment value of that. He fights down the nausea that accompanies that thought.