“Well hello again. We meet possibly for the last time. Do you suppose you can find it in your being to tell me what in hell this nonsense is all about?”
               “You look somewhat harassed...”
               “I am. I’m wet. I’m tired and I feel like I’m going to throw up. I can’t believe you would do this to me, to us, to men you grew up with. What has happened to your sense of values. Why did you deceive us?” He’s got blood soaking through around his waist and in his crotch. He pulled up a chair. “You’d better sit down and put that gun down. Pointing a gun at me is really quiet plebeian...”
               “I don’t feel plebeian. I feel as thought my world has come apart and I’m not long for it now. I know what pain is like and I can tell you, it is immense. Before I do what I must do, you must tell me why. I think I deserve to know what happened. Lay it out for me. You always pretended to be the innocent one and here we have it, you’re as guilty as sin. As if the word had any meaning to you.”
               “Where do you want me to start?”
               “I guess at the beginning.”
               “The beginning started with Dr. Haussmann. May I sit down? Most of the chairs are empty. Looks like the others may not make it.
               “Sit but don’t make any funny moves that I might interpret wrong. I’m gonna’ sit myself.”
               “Dr. Haussmann was smuggled into this country by the Feds, yes, our own Government. After World War II ended, he was a young scientist at Leipzig University. The Nazis had secreted not only Dr. Haussmann but several of co-workers. The Allies had placed a top level spy in the university and they knew some type of advanced work was underway. This spy, as it turns out, was Cyrus Largent.
               “Ah!”
               “The Allies thought he had secrets that would rock the world if his theories and experiments proved to be successful. But, the old guy was very clever. He had been contacted by Cyrus and when the Soviets were crashing West all along the Eastern Front, Cyrus persuaded Dr. Haussmann that he had best talk his compatriots into agreeing to be taken to the United States, where they would be given a short trial, cleared of any wrongdoing during the war, and then be free to work for the U.S. Government...”
               “And?”
               “Well, Dr. Haussmann agreed, but the young German was cagy...”
               “What did he do?”
               “Well, for one thing...”