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Michael Zhang reveals that he suspects a cosmic monopole was trapped by the strong magnetic fields inside ATLAS and has now been transformed by absorbing particles from the beams into something else, something much more dangerous.

Brigit is now the Irish Ambassador to the UN in Geneva. She invites Catriona and Sam to Switzerland for the Easter holiday in 2012. They all go on a visit to CERN where the Director General Francesco Romani wants to persuade Brigit that Irish membership would be of great benefit. Catriona meets Chinese-Irish scientist Michael Zhang and finds that he was present on the night her father died.

Catriona looks for help and finds a friend in her teacher, Sam Fitzpatrick, but even he doesn't believe her story. However Sam is an unmarried man who loves children but knows he will never have any children of his own, so he is very happy to help this unhappy little girl.

Catriona O'Brien is only eight years old when she makes a desperate attempt to bring her parents back together, but she meets more than she bargained for in the dark little park surrounding the Advanced Physics Laboratory where her father does his experiments. The events of that evening will seal her fate, and the destiny of the Universe.