Hunsiker had been infected with the virus by a contagious Franklin, who had sneezed on him earlier.His flight to New York would continue on to Paris (an animated graphic illustrated his air route""s trajectory), and was also connected to other cities (in Africa, Asia and worldwide) - all infected by a spreading global pandemic.While writing his newspaper story in hisDaily Planetoffice ("the prettiest girl in the school is still the prettiest girl in the school"), Clark received a frantic phone call from Lana, about how Ricky had promised his friends that Superman would appear at his next Wednesday""s birthday party.As they take cover, they look back - the fort mysteriously goes up in flames and is destroyed: "There goes the evidence.According to Dunn, that would require manually apping into the central server to take it offline.Brandt (wearing a special anti-gravity suit under his clothes that was controlled by a robotic rover below him) was called upon to enter the server room by dropping down a narrow tunnel above a large turbine server ventilating fan, navigating through the central server""s exhaust vent, floating in mid-air above the computer array, and jacking into the panel to disarm it.