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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Synchronicity" data-source="post: 1968380" data-attributes="member: 10070">Benjamin PikePike barks another of his short, mostly humourless laughs at Alex's words. "By the end of this op, I can practically guarantee you'll have seen stranger things. Better get used to it - life in our organisation's never dull. Of course, running into inexplicable things so often does mean we're quite nicely set up when it comes to examining them. We'll be able to get you some time in a proper lab to study this thing. However, now is a good time to tell you about rule one - where possible, nobody does any investigating by themselves. Work in pairs or threes. Even if it's conducting scientific tests, have one person doing the testing and the other watching them. Always watch each other's backs, and be alert for any..abnormal behaviour evinced by your partner. Sure, the buddy system can slow things down a bit, and we might get more done by splitting up; but we don't have that many operatives, and that means prioritising safety over speed."Pike pauses for a moment, tapping his chin, and then begins talking again."The way I see it, there're three possibilities here; either Bio-Carb animated this head and Iron Shirt stole it from them, or Iron Shirt stole whatever Bio-Carb used to animate this head from them and animated this head with it, or Iron Shirt learnt how to animate the head from watching or taking part in activities at Bio-Carb and did it himself. In the first two instances, Bio-Carb may have noticed something missing, and may be searching for it. If, in the worst case scenario, Iron Shirt stole this head from them then they may know exactly what's missing, and they'll want it back - so everybody stay sharp! Santiago! Once we arrange time in a lab, I'll send Taszyck with you to keep an eye on that head and make sure nobody makes a play for it. Gordon! You're getting together everything you can on Ms Fiona Lin-Wei. Pull records, check out back issues of this magazine of hers - full workup. Then pull what you can on Bio-Carb - but discreetly. We don't want them to know we're looking into them - not yet, anyway. You can manage that? Rose! You and I are going to interview Lin-Wei and see if she knows anything about anyone named Thomas Iron Shirt or Bio-Carb. Just hang back and let me do the talking, but keep your eyes open. Finally, nobody is to do any digging into Thomas Iron Shirt. Chances are it's an alias - I wouldn't put my real name on a package like this. If it is an alias, we'll get nothing from investigating it - and if it isn't an alias and Bio-Carb know they have a leak, looking into Iron Shirt would paint a big red target on his head. Any objections, comments, things you think I've overlooked?"</blockquote>

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