The Things That Keep Us Up at Night: Reel Biohorror by Victoria Sutton

Author:Victoria Sutton [Sutton, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Humor & Entertainment, Movies, History & Criticism, Movies & Video
Amazon: B00KDIMQDI
Publisher: Vargas Publishing
Published: 2014-05-15T04:00:00+00:00

The laboratory accident is caused by a disgruntled employee, Joseph Muller, who has been laid off, putting pressure on his ability to pay alimony, a condition of his visitation of his eight-year old son. By 2000, most state courts were clear about not making alimony payment a condition for visitation by the non-custodial parent. However, this was the key element of the story that drove the laid off employee to try to talk to his boss. Not getting any satisfaction from his brief encounter with the boss, he follows them into the most secure area of the laboratory and then begins turning over cabinets, crashing glass testtubes and dishes and equipment. The toxin escapes into the air, killing some of the people, but the disgruntled employee just picks himself up, dusts himself off and scurries away into what is the Balaton Region of Hungary according to the opening legend.

The scene which introduces Joseph is his early morning trip to work and he is entering through a security gate to which he no longer has access. His colleague opens the door for him and he passes through, his colleague believing from their conversation that Joseph is also not one of the employees laid off. Laboratory biosecurity protocols in general specifically prohibit using an access card for another employee but this movie shows how easily this can happen. Safeguards for entry now include retina scanners, fingerprint pads and/or passcards, but most of these are designed to allow someone with legitimate access to allow anyone accompanying him or her to enter at the same time. Once inside, Joseph becomes more desperate to talk to the managers who then put him off, leading him to begin vandalizing the glass-walled laboratory which he enters by following closely behind the managers. Again, laboratory biosecurity would have required all of them to have on biosuits and to go through several rooms before entering this level of security. At one point, the toxin is described as needing handling at “Level 5”. While this is a meaningless numbering reference, there are four biological safety levels for handling toxins and biological agents on the select agent list, a regulated list for dangerous pathogens. This would seem to indicate the highest level of containment for the “Trinoxin-3” toxin.

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