"And this would be the most logical and rational explanation. But you have no evidence that these gentlemen are guilty. You do not even know where Doctors Giannini and Whu are, nor have you managed, in two months of work, to indict Alfredo Brandi for something concrete. At this point we might as well dismiss the case and take for good the SISDE agents’ version about the Chinese mafia. Listen to me, instead, and let me finish the story of the extraterrestrials. The aliens aboard the Nephilus, in all likelihood, were escaping from a planet close to collapse, at its end, as the Earth will be destined to be in a few million years. The survivors had studied Earth as an ideal place for their survival, but their technology had made them travel at speeds far superior to the speed of light. Result?

