 Why was Charles in the actress's apartment?
New York lay quietly below him. Only once, before the plague, had he seen the interior of this room. And again at the age of 10 each child returned to the Bureau for a recheck. It was for this latter recording that Charles had come to the Bureau some twenty-two years before and a friendly guard had let him peep briefly into the computer room. Charles activated the switches that would flash a schematic map of New York on the screen. And one of them, a beautiful woman, had invited him up to her apartment, not because she liked him, but because.... Charles was by himself, the last person alive in all of New York City.
 She wanted to be with someone one last time.
 She wanted to be with someone one last time.  They were working on curing the plague.  He thought he could find answers there.  They had been living together.