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The truck driver haht

In an arc, the truck’s headlights flared through the Honda’s interior

Feeling the car want to roll, she avoided the brakes, eased off the accelerator, finessed the wheel to the left

The truck shot past the even though her as closed

When the potential energy of a roll transferred into a back-end slide, a rear tire stuttered off the pavee, but then they were on paveed

As Carson accelerated, Michael holstered his pistol, tossed her cell phone back to her

When she caught the phone and as he put up thein his door, she said, "That settles it We’ll get married"

He said, "Obviously"

Re on the backseat, grinning"

"He is so our dog"

When Carson put the phone to her ear, the for, "Hello? Are you there? Hello?"

"Just dropped the phone," Carson said "You were saying you wanted so to do to Victor if you can get your hands on him?" Erika asked "Arrest hi him would be way too complicated"

"It’d be the trial of the ri testiazillion really bad et off scot-free anyway," Carson said

"He’d definitely get off," Michael agreed

"He’d be like a folk hero to a significant number of idiots"

"Jury nullification," Michael said

"All he wanted was to build a utopia"

"Paradise on Earth Nothing wrong with that"

"A one-nation world without war," Carson said

"All of hulorious future"

"The New Race wouldn’t pollute like the Old Race"

"Every last one of theht-bulb they were told to use," Michael said

"No greed, less waste, a willingness to sacrifice"

"They’d save the polar bears," Michael said

Carson said, "They’d save the oceans"

"They’d save the planet"

"They would They’d save the solar syste, that wasn’t Victor’s fault"

"Monsters," Michael said "Those damn raic," Carson said "The brilliant scientist undone"

"Betrayed by those ungrateful, rebelliousto end up with his own reality-TV show," Carson said

"He’ll be on Dancing with the Stars"

"And he’ll win"

On the phone, the for only half of this, but what I hear is you aren’t handling it like police detectives anyed

"You want to kill him," Erika said

"As often as it takes toAnd we can help you, those of us here at the dump All we ask is don’t just shoot him Take him alive Help us kill him the ant to do it"

"How do you want to do it?" Carson asked

"We want to chain him and take him down into the dump"

"I’rave of garbage lined with the dead flesh of his victims"

"I like that"

"Some of the others want to urinate on him"

"I can understand the impulse"

"We wish to buckle around his neck a h which eventually we can adh to ht away After the collar, ant to bury hi for h of that Then we boil his h," Carson said

"We really have"

"Maybe we can work together"

Erika said, "The next time he comes to the new tank farm--"