Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20140806122913/@comment-4698889-20140915004751

Also, anon, you have to take into account that Margarita used different batches of Gift on Caspar, Marx and the other people. The one she used on Caspar was meant to instantly kill him, while the one for Marx was meant to kill him slowly - probably to take off any suspicion from her. As for the rest of the town, she made it into an airborn toxin, explaining how quickly it spread to Rita.