Major Cartwright You know this Royston chap. Brilliant, of course, I'm sure. But the trouble with these scientific types is they can't see the easy way out of anything. It's got to be complicated if it's going to work.
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Major Cartwright Now, Mac, how would you go about killing that?
Inspector McGill What is it?
It's a particle of mud. But by virtue of its atomic structure it emits radiation. That's all it is. Just mud. How do you kill mud?
What happened, sir? I don't understand.
Peter, I'm afraid I don't either. Yesterday the material in that container was giving a danger-point radiation reading. Now, as you just saw, it's nothing.
But that's impossible! Isn't it?
Yesterday I would have said yes, but this fact is inescapable: The energy trapped in that trinium has been sucked right out of it. And furthermore, that window was barred and these doors were locked all night. So whoever it was came in here must be most ... unusual.
How do you explain it, sir? All this extraordinary damage just to steal an old sample container?
It's on its way for the biggest meal of its life.