Dr. Alethea Faber is a physician operating out of a hospital in Queens, seemingly, the woman at the center of the mystery surrounding the city's powered men. Every one of the affected men passed through her care, treated at the veterans' hospital before their abilities emerged, and Robbie's investigation into their condition leads straight to her door.
When Robbie comes to confront her, she agrees to sit down with him. She grows defensive as he presses her on the four patients who developed powers only after her treatment, insisting there is a reason behind everything she does. While she is occupied with the reporter, Ben Reilly slips into her office upstairs and uncovers a hidden compartment of files on the powered men. She and her assistant Ogden return to catch him in the act, but Ben plays the part of a lost patient and escapes, though not before Ogden recognizes him as one of the soldiers who the POWs in France. Later that evening, in an attempt to flee the hospital for fear of what the reporter's article will do to them, Dr. Faber and Ogden are approached by Cat, who delivers what could be the answer to everything the pair has been searching for.
