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“It’ll be the last thing you’ll ever see”
“They had this with them” Richards passed her the map She took a quick look and handed it back to Richards “You should have let things go in El Salvador,” she said to Pitt
He regarded her for a moment, then made the connection that she’d been the fake doctor in Suchitoto who’d tried to kill Elise “Dr McKee, is it now? I didn’t know that testing your bacteria on innocent Third World children and ss was condoned by the medical profession”
She began to speak, but Perkins interrupted her “They knohat you arehere”
Audrey stuck her nose in the air “We make environmentally friendly remediation products for pollution control Should anyone coe any products in development to the bottom of the loch No one outside the facility shall ever know otherwise”
Perkins gave a somber nod “Your father would never approve”
“My fatherMy father was a beast”
“Not compared to your mother”
As Audrey’s face flushed in anger, Pitt spoke up “Your tanker ships are being tracked It will all be traced back to you”
“I don’t believe you But even if what you say is true, it’s too late We’ve deployed EP-3 in nearly a dozen locations around the globe Even under your nose in Detroit We’re changing the world, Mr Pitt, and there’s nothing you, or anyone else, can do about it” She gave him a thin smile “Now if you’ll excuseyour wife in the ”
She rapped her knuckles on the large stainless steel tank next to her and turned to Richards “Since our guests are so curious about our production methods, perhaps they can be a part of the next batch Tie therowth tanks and let them enjoy the process firsthand”
She gave thebreed Good-bye, gentlemen”
As she departed with her aruards to find sos He returned with a knife and a spool of heavy nylon rope While the others kept their weapons trained, he went fro their wrists and elbows behind their backs His handiwork corabbed Perkins by the shirt and yanked him forward “This way”
He led Perkins to the far side of one of the large tanks, where a hatch door stood open “Inside,” he ordered
Pitt and Giordino were unpoint behind and forced to duck inside the hatch, joining Perkins Richards and the two guards followed, and one flicked on a flashlight