Mercury Rising Page #2

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Check your mailbox

for your new assignments.

Hey, Simon, we`re here.

Mommy, Simon is home.

Look at me.

Hi, Mom.

Hi, honey. I missed you.

Come on inside.

Be careful.

It`s very hot.

Sip it slowly.

Daddy`ll be home soon.

And when you finish that,

you can wait for him up in your room.

Congratulations.

You`ve reached the Puzzle Center.

For solving one

of our master puzzles...

you`ve won a subscription

to the magazine of your choice.

Can I please have your name,

address and telephone number?

You are...

a stranger.

Excuse me. This the Puzzle Center.

Where did you get this number?

Puzzle nine-nine.

What did you just say?

Who is this?

Simon,

put down the phone.

Simon, Simon, wait a second.

Please don`t hang--

Come on, come on.

Figures.

See if they correlate.

If they don`t, you may have lost some

bytes in the transfer, lost a keyword.

You won`t be able

to defractionate. Yeah?

- Are you scrambled?

- Give me a break, Leo. I`m busy.

It`s Mercury, Dean. Somebody just walked

on water. You have to get up here now.

- What did you just say?

- You are a stranger.

- Who is this?

- Simon, put down the phone.

Simon, Simon, wait a second.

Please don`t hang--

Who is that?

Listen to the timbre

of his voice.

It`s a child.

That had to be his mother.

Right. It`s just

some rug rat...

drooling over the phone,

punching numbers, like a random thing.

Huh?

We`re not that lucky.

- We have to call Kudrow.

- What? Dean, what?

No, no, no.

We don`t have to call anybody.

All we gotta do is an analysis,

and give him a report when he gets back.

- That`s it!

- Do you understand what just happened?

We have to call him now

or he`s gonna say we tried to hide it.

- Morning, sir.

- Good morning, Marine.

I`ve got an urgent message

for Lieutenant Colonel Kudrow.

Mercury is already

operational in most of our com centers.

And l`m here to confirm

everything you`ve already heard.

Mercury is a quantum leap

in our communications security.

And once we complete its installation

in all of our com centers...

- it`s going to be very hard

for our adversaries--

- And our allies.

And our allies to compromise

our communications.

An urgent message

for you, sir.

If you`ll excuse me.

-Mr. Johnson will continue the briefing.

-All right, gentlemen.

Impossible.

- You`re late.

- I wasn`t when I started.

Traffic was like mud.

I oozed home.

I told Simon

he could wait up for you.

Simon, my man.

I wonder where Simon is.

Time for bed, Simon.

-Send in Pedranski and Crandell, please.

- Yes, sir.

Who needs a fix?

Double tall, double dark, double sweet.

Double everything. I`m so glad I missed

the whole drug thing...

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