It was much grander than she expected. Mary was excited when she entered the mansion that would be her home for the next few months. The warm embrace ...hat Paul, a long-time friend of her parents' and a successful businessman, had given her when she arrived, had been a little longer than strictly necessary. But she did not mind that at all. She had always found Paul with his green eyes and shock of auburn hair fascinating. Now that she was 18, she was looking forward to getting to know him. John Roberts; was an average student with a sharp mind but easily distracted; you could say he was often overpowered by his mother's authority but to the outside world he was just an average guy. Every since he was thirteen he had developed a fascination with rape after reading a victim's account of being raped by a strong silent man. He read that court account in his local paper; several times before turning to investigate other true rape accounts but non of those seemed to pique his attention. “Hey, Terry. Coffee?” El came into the office and placed a Starbucks cup on the desk in front of me.“Thanks, El. How’s your petty cash box holding up?”“It’s the beginning of term, Terry. So far I’ve spent seven dollars of the fifty you put in it yesterday.”“Yeah. I forgot. Thinking about the show. So, do you have the scenes copied that I want to have them read?”“Got it. They’re at the copy center and should be ready for me to pick up first thing tomorrow morning. The Box is reserved from four. It wasn't easy, I'll tell you. After two full days of trying to crack the command system, and take control of the Dawkins, I had to give up. The command system is fool-proof. It will accept only voice commands from the crew." I checked the system for other weak links. Finally, I found one that I could exploit. With the help of some very sophisticated hardware, provided by my generous benefactors at the McPhail corporation, I was able to insert myself as a link in the sensors, and feed false.