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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ThWatcher" data-source="post: 5270711" data-attributes="member: 86237">George Wilkinson 25/36George is about to go along with Dr. Charleston and his men to the police station when it occurs to him what a potentially disastrous or advantageous turning point they are at.  George pulls Dr. Charleston to the side and quietly tells Charlston what has just occurred to him.  "Sir, we can't tell anyone what we have.  If the enemy finds out what we have, they'll change the actions drastically.  They'll either have to kill us and destroy the detector or they'll step up their plans, maybe an all out invasion, before we can get ready to fight them."George takes a breath and continues.  "We have to find out if we can stop the spread of knowledge of the detector.   You have to call, who was it, oh, yes, Flocker, back and make sure he doesn't tell anyone about what we have.  If he's told anyone, he has to get them all together and sent over here right away.  They'll have to watch each other till they get here because any one or more of them could be infected."Another slight pause for breath.  "If we can keep the enemy from knowing that we can detect them, then they'll not up their plans.  We might even be able to feed them some mis-information.  We'll still use the parasite detector, but only to know who we can trust and who we can't.  When one of them goes on an assassination / killing spree, we'll try to jam them and stop them.  Then we'll destroy the parasite and save the host if possible.  Then we could make the host and the targets disappear.  Send them somewhere we know is safe and secret.  We'll give the news a report of so-n-so, who ever the host is, going crazy and killing whoever the target was.  And local authorities had to kill so-n-so in the incident."Glancing over at the scientists who helped, George adds, "I hate to say it, but if we are not certain we can trust those scientists, we may need to send them to that 'secure and safe' place.  We could have them work for us while they're there, but we have to know that they're willing to keep the secret at almost any cost before we could let them stay in the public.  The main thing is, we can't let the enemy know we can detect them."George thinks a bit more.  "I'd prefer that Flocker came here also.  We can't take the chance that he is infected and doesn't know it.  Wait, having him come over here isn't going to work.  If he's infected, it's already too late.  We just have to trust that since he's co-operating and talking to us, maybe he's not infected.  We'll just have to test the people he sends over here and then send them back with a detector and jammer and a trained operator to use them.  He needs to know to keep this quiet and be willing to take the risk that some of his men may die because we're trying to use the enemy's on agents against them."George takes several breaths, "Well, that's my take on the situation and what we need to do.  If you have any other suggestions or want to do it differently, let me know so I can handle this machine the way you want me to."</blockquote>

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