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ASSEMBLY FOLLOW UPASSEMBLY FOLLOW UPFBI Special Agent Don Eppes is trying to track a serial poisoner who is contaminating pharmaceutical drugs.

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Using your knowledge of the English Language decipher coded messages that the FBI have intercepted between a serial poisoner and a their accomplice inside the pharmacy.

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