He projected an image of himself in his sixth floor cell, and confusion erupted.
“It"s a decoy!” Brewster shouted.
“No, it"s not!” the Captain replied. “All the rest of it is an illusion!”
“All personnel to checkpoint one!” Brewster ordered, rounding the stairwell to checkpoint two.
“Belay that order!” the Captain roared. “I"m in command of this compound! Shut down checkpoints two and three, and shut off that b***h"s mike!”
“That"s my prisoner and if you let—”
Brewster went silent.
“All right, everyone,” the Captain said, “Let"s slow it down. First things first. We make the assumption that our prisoner has somehow compromised our video surveillance system. Second, we inspect every cell on every floor systematically by feel, and we access everything below level one through the mainte
