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Niveus Pharmaceuticals is a key part to of Lucifer's plan to destroy humanity using the [[Croatoan virus]]. This plan depends entirely on [[Pestilence]] and [[Brady]], and isn't fully revealed until [[5.21 Two Minutes To Midnight]].

===[[5.20 The Devil You Know]]===First appearance of Brady and Niveus in the series. [[Pestilence]] has begun spreading his swine flu epidemic, which has caused a nationwide panic and a surge in demand for swine flu vaccines. At the Niveus labs, technicians are testing a flu vaccine, when a demon disguised as a janitor injects one of them with the [[Croatoan virus]]. The technician, now infected, kills his partner. After watching all this, the janitor says "Looks like it works."

At the Niveus labs, technicians are testing a flu vaccine, when a demon disguised as a janitor injects one of them with the [[Croatoan virus]]. The technician, now infected, kills his partner. After watching all this, the janitor says "Looks like it works." During a company board meeting, Brady berates Niveus executives, in particular a man named Mitchell, for not producing the vaccine fast enough, citing the ongoing swine flu epidemic. Before his subsequent meeting with Mitchell, Brady is reading a company memo on his laptop which we briefly see onscreen. It reads:<br>

Brady flatters, then kills, Mitchell, and contacts Pestilence using a [[Goblet of blood]] ritual, and . He informs him that the results of the vaccine trials are going well. He tries to downplay Pestilence's expectations for how quickly the vaccine can be produced and distributed, but Pestilence isn't having any of that and urges him to do better.

===[[5.21 Two Minutes To Midnight]]===

After they have succeeded in getting Pestilence's ring, [[Crowley]] shows Sam and Dean a newspaper article on Niveus rushing production of its new swine flu vaccine, and tells them Brady was vice president of distribution at the company. With this information, Sam and Dean figure out Lucifer and Pestilence's plan:

Sam, Bobby and Castiel head to Niveus headquarters to stop the company from distributing the vaccine. According to Bobby, the original plan was for them to go inside, plant C4 plastic explosives and pull the fire alarm to force everyone inside to evacuate. This plan is abandoned when a truck trucks unexpectedly is about to leave the lotbegin leaving. When the demons become aware that they are hereunder attack, they lock down all the doors and infect some of the human workers with the Croatoan virus. Bobby, Sam and Castiel kill the demons and Croatoan-infected [[zombies]] inside the warehouse using their guns and [[Ruby's knife]] and , then free the other humans still left inside. After they're done, Bobby tells them they still need to commit their "act of domestic terrorism." Although it is not shown, it is highly implied that they were successful at destroying the vaccine samples using the plastic explosives they had brought.