Your alarm sounds like a chromatography pump on its last legs. You blink at the ceiling and remember three things, in order:
1. You are a QC Microbiology Analyst at Sterilex Pharmaceuticals.
2. The FDA may show up this week for a pre-announced inspection.
3. There is a possibly-suspicious colony on a plate in Incubator B that you've been trying not to think about since yesterday.
Your phone shows three emails from your supervisor Sandra. None say "good morning." Two say "FYI." One says "FYI!!"