Prisoner X Page #4

Only we're the lab rats now.

- Clear.

- Good luck.

- Hello.

- Agent Carmen Reese.

- What a lovely name.

I guess you could say I'm

somewhat of an audiophile.

I love my oldies,

but you already know that.

Coffee? Tea?

- No, thank you.

- Where is Fischer?

- He's dead, he killed himself.

- How sad.

He was my best friend in a way.

- You don't seem surprised.

- This world is like

a dream, Carmen.

Are you ever

surprised in a dream?

Did you know Fischer well?

- I did.

- Were you lovers?

I know you weren't.

- Why's that?

- You're not his type.

You must have made quite the

impression on your superiors.

The fact that they handed you

this most crucial assignment.

- I'll have a green tea.

- Well,

now that you are going

to be my new best friend,

I'd like to know a little

bit more about you.

- What would you like to know?

- Like,

what have you been up to

since all of this began?

- I served in Iraq for a while.

- Ah, searching for those

elusive WMDs, I suppose.

- In the beginning, yeah.

Then the insurgency began and

my assignment changed.

Suddenly I was given hundreds

of shackled prisoners

and this checklist that

made no sense to me.

At the time.

- A checklist?

- We were told that

our suspects would be

in their 20's to 30's.

They wouldn't be Iraqi.

Probably not even middle-eastern

but that they would

have strange accents.

Maybe they wouldn't

have an accent at all.

I tortured them.

Because I was told

that these foreigners

would display an extraordinary

tolerance to pain,

even in the worst

interrogations.

- Tailored genes

and nano devices

are quite common in my world.

- Especially among the

impoverished, I understand.

To help them deal with

their miserable lives.

- I trust you took

blood samples.

- Thousands.

They were sent back home,

tested for key genes.

- Genes that could be

easily hidden or removed.

- Easily.

- I warned Fischer.

I couldn't be certain

regarding the genetics

of the other warriors.

Or their current identities.

- But yet you knew that

they would be in Iraq.

- Iraq was explicitly

mentioned to me.

Please, allow me.

- By who? By Abraham?

- Yes, by Abraham himself.

He said that Sadam would

be our primary focus.

I can understand

your frustration.

There are 30-million

people in Iraq.

Your task was almost impossible.

- Almost.

- Did you find someone?

- We found a young woman.

No family, no papers.

I worked her,

and I worked her,

and all I got was the name

of a river in Kashmir.

- Kashmir.

Fischer never mentioned

the girl to me.

Is she being helpful?

- Not since she managed

to kill herself.

- Oh.

Suicide implants.

- No, she slammed her forehead

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