Missions of the Retrieval Team - Kilt and Kilt Again

[Jock Scot]

It may not be quite the time to ask this, Mr Livingston, with all those sharp pointy things flying about. But, "you are looking after my whisky and gin, aren't you?

[Livingston]

It may not be quite the time to ask this, Mr Livingston, with all those sharp pointy things flying about. But, "you are looking after my whisky and gin, aren't you?

Welllllll.... I WAS looking after it. I had it scheduled to be loaded on the Saltire but since I wasn't there to do that, I don't think it made it. Not sure where it is now since ..... well, ouch...that hurts

[davedove]

Commercial Break

Kitchen, Great Hall of X Marks the Scot

We see Arlen looking around the room with a look of distaste.

Dee walks in and sees Arlen. “What’s wrong?” he asks.

“Can’t you smell it?” Arlen replies.

Dee sniffs the air and immediately frowns. “Yes, what is that awful stench?”

“I don’t know. I’ve been trying to find the source all morning. It seems like it’s only in the air.”

“Have you tried the Odor X-tinct?” Dee asks.

“No, what’s that?”

Dee goes over to the cabinet and pulls out a spray can. “Odor X-tinct,” he says, showing Arlen the can. “It’s a new product from I.C.E. for neutralizing odors. The all natural ingredients actually combine with the odor molecules in the air and trap them, leaving the air completely fresh.” Dee sprays the product throughout the kitchen.

“Take another whiff,” he tells Arlen.

Arlen again sniffs the air and smiles at the result. “Amazing,” he says, “The odor has disappeared.”

“That’s the Odor X-tinct,” he says. “It works every time.”

[davedove]

Scene 1

Infirmary, Great Hall of X Marks the Scot

Jamie and I walked down the hall with Dee. We had been summoned back to the Great Hall when intruders were discovered in David’s lab.

“There were two,” Dee was telling us. “Ensign Mender was the first to respond to the alarm. One was alive, but unconscious; the other one was dead.”

We came up to the door where Ensign Mender was standing guard.

“He’s still out,” Mender told us.

“Do we know who he is?” I asked.

“No idea,” answered Dee.

“I want to see him,” Jamie said.

“Of course,” Dee responded, “But there is something else you should see first.”

“What’s that?” Jamie asked.

“The dead man, you really need to see who it is.”

We followed Dee down the hall to the next room. He opened the door and led us in.

“Both men were found on the floor of David’s lab,” Dee explained. “As I said, one man was unconscious, but the other was dead. The dead man had been hit by several rounds from an automatic weapon. However, the Doc says that the bullets alone shouldn’t have killed him.”

“Then what did?” Jamie asked.

“He didn’t know, but he explained that the man had suffered some sort of shock to his system. That shock weakened his body enough that the wounds killed him. The other man shows signs of the same sort of shock.”

We stepped up to the bed where the dead man was lying, covered with a sheet.

“Prepare yourself,” Dee said.

I wondered what Dee meant from his warning until he pulled back the sheet. Jamie and I both gasped when the man’s face was revealed.

Although it was a bit older, the face of the man was my own.