Jesus, that's... utterly horrifying, really, on multiple levels. That certainly doesn't sound like a pathogen. It sounds more like someone just playing around, experimenting on them.

"Those wires some of us found, back at the beginning," she starts, gesturing to the faint scar on her inner arm. "They've still got control of us. That has to be it. They're not just in our heads, they're in our bodies."

Sorry, Bobbie, none of that is very comforting. She's just hypothesizing out loud.