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Journals: Book 1, Entry 03 “Mata Hari” Quatrain 6, Century 8. "Where ivory towers meet the eastern sea / Young trees of knowledge will fall / crushed by the thorny vine of a red rose." If Crazy Eddie's right, Nostradamus' idea of an ivory tower is here at the National Institute of Applied Mathematics in Boston, Massachussetts. A young Einstein named Ted Eichmann dropped dead with bubbles in his blood, like he's a can of soda someone shook too fast. Word on campus had it he was working on a government project. The program needed a new boy wonder. Looks like I finally made it to college. Mom would’ve been proud. Crazy Eddie wired me up with a microphone and earpiece so I could play genius to all the real geniuses. I fooled them with Eddie’s help and made the grade. They told me we were working on a “communications satellite system.” I didn’t buy it. With the level of secrecy surrounding the project, I was betting this project was far more dangerous than anyone was letting on. Super-brain Ted Eichmann died from some kind of nitrogen narcosis, like he went deep sea diving and got the bends. Ted was the key to cracking this mystery. I checked Ted’s room out and found some provocative pictures of a brunette beauty. The teaching assistant Henrietta, or “Hank” as she preferred, said she recognized the woman. Saw her hanging out at the campus bar. Thought it was time Ted’s polaroid pal and I met. I went looking for her, but she found me first. Her name was Lara. She said she had a thing for campus geniuses and I was next on her list. Can’t say I liked the sound of that. She touched my hand and I felt woozy. She got inside my head, and I told her who I really was, a fugitive framed for murder, the whole bit. Lara had some kind of telekinetic power that sliced straight into my mind. Lara’s targeting the geniuses on the satellite project. Whether she’s an alien herself or merely working for them, I don’t know. But she’s going down. And I’m setting the trap. 'Til next time… “Mata Hari” Writer: S. Smith Miller Director: Brenton Spencer Executive Producers: Francis Ford Coppola, Larry Sugar Created by: Chris Brancato Guest Stars: Heather Hanson as Lara, Sarah Strange as Hank, David Lovgren as Elliott, Dana Brooks as Colonel Grace, Rafe McDonald as Ted Echmann. |
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