That single flu vaccine factory is now merely a small part of a complex national vaccine manufacturing and distribution supply chain and delivery system, run by a web of scientists, doctors, nurses, cybersecurity teams, testers, military specialists, lorry drivers and a non-uniformed army of cheerful volunteers.
'I hate it.' Gruff, low, rough. 'I paid off her mortgage but she refuses to take more money from me and cleaning is what she's always done. Dad left her with nothing and even before he left he just did jack all in his shed all day.'
Billie Burke's career and life often twined together in this manner – so many of her roles called on her to play parts that were fragments of her real life: the sought-after young stage beauty, the wronged wife, the spendthrift matriarch of bankrupt wealth, the woman too old to be acting so young.
You were there? Again? You left the scene without reporting. You aren't a law unto yourself you know that right? I should arrest you on the spot right now.
