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"Can't say You'll have to ask Dr Lugovoy that question"

Suvorov watched one of the screens as an attendant in a laboratory coat lifted a panel on Senator Larimer's cocoon and inserted a hypodermic needle into one arm

"What's he doing?" Suvorov asked, pointing

The technician looked up "We have to adain consciousness"

' "I see," said Suvorov quietly Suddenly it all became clear in his mind as the details of his escape plan fell into place He felt good, better than he had in days To celebrate, he returned to the dining room and opened another bottle of port Then he took a small notebook froes

Oscar Lucas PArked HIS CAR in a VIP slot at the Walter Reed Ared around a uarded by a Marine sergeant whose face had a Mount Rushmore solemnity about it

The sergeant carefully screened his identification and directed hihly secret autopsies were held Lucas quickly found the door marked LABORATORY AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY and entered

"I hope I haven't kept you waiting," he said

"No, Oscar," said Alan Mercier "I only walked in a o myself"

Lucas nodded and looked around the glass-enclosed room

There were five an, Mercier and a short chesty lasses introduced as Colonel Tho, who carried the heavy title of Director of Coy

"Now that everyone is here, said Colonel Thornburg in a strange alto voice, "I can show you gentlemen our results"

He went over to a largeand peered at a huge circular lass It looked like a finned turbine attached by a shaft to a generator Half of the turbine disappeared into the concrete floor Inside its inner dia, while just outside lay a corpse on a translucent tray

"A spatial analyzer probe, or SAP as it's affectionately called by my staff of researchers who developed it What it does essentially is explore the body electronically through enhanced X rays while revealing precisepictures of every millimeter of tissue and bone"

"A kind of CAT scanner," ventured Brogan