After you have dealt with the emergency in Highpool you head over to the agricultural center. You find the area to be filled with Pods and hostile creatures. You will find Kathy Lawson tangled in plants to the North of the main entrance. She tells you that everyone is dead and that your late response has warranted this. She is very reluctant to give you information and you are unable to save her from the plants. After you have finished talking to you the plant will crush her eliminating the possibility of talking to her.