Monday, November 24

Killer Comet Continues

General Blaine, Dan, and General Tompkins are walking down an institutional-looking hallway. They're all holding clipboards. (General Tompkins' is in his mouth.) Several men in lab coats, including Scientists Cho and Greenberg and less-important uniforms follow.
Blaine: Sheriff, we've been all over this boondocks town of yours- the crime scene in the woods, the funeral home, the police station. We've looked at all the results and tests, and we don't know any more than we did last night. And we've got an estimated 7 hours before this thing hits--
Person Behind Him: And the Farmington High Senior Prom begins at nineteen hundred hours, sir.
Blaine: For Christ's sake, the prom! Those kids are sitting ducks! Throws clipboard at the wall. There has got to be something we haven't thought of.
General Tompkins fetches General Blaine's clipboard and gives it to Dan.
Dan: Sir, I'm sorry. I know you're frustrated, and it's a darn shame you flew me all the way out to Washington, and then flew yourselves out here to Farmington Falls, for nothing better than a taste of Falls Diner Triple Berry Pie. But I showed you everything I could. Any more figurin' than we've already done is just...plain outta my league. What about some of those science fellers back there? Some of them are just itchin' to give you their theories. Dan winks at Cho, who smiles ingenuously.
Cho: Sir, as a matter of fact, we have some information which could prove to be substantially more fruitful than a theory.
General Blaine has been taking deep breaths. He takes his clipboard back from Dan.
Blaine: Well, go on boy. Let's hear it.
Cho: Right! Well, we've been trying to gather as much data as possible about the comet in question--
Greenberg: Size, velocity, aliases, history of drug use, core temperature--
Cho: But we've also been speaking to experts, looking into other research already extant, and one name keeps coming back to us.
Greenberg: We called Dr. Cipro at FSU, spoke to Dr. Englehart over at NASA, Dr. Frezzlewicz at the Graber Observatory, and dozens of others, and they all told us the same thing.
Cho: We need to find, and speak to Dr. Stanislaus Gardener. The only man in the Western Hemisphere who holds a doctorate in Cosmopsychology.

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