1 Washington, DC Present Day “You have got to be shitting me!” an annoyed Sam Savage barks. “I just saved the lives of two-hundred innocent souls from a terrorist and his explosive-filled laptop computer bent on blowing up a jetliner, and you’re busting me to Amtrak train duty? It doesn’t make an ounce of sense, Dater.” “Calm yourself down already, Sam,” responds his boss, Carl Dater. “My damned hands are tied. We’ve got at least two Bravo Air attendants who witnessed you banging that Mary broad in the lavatory while cruising at thirty thousand feet. You’re lucky to still have your job as an air marshal regardless of how many souls you saved. You know the way the Federal Government works. You never get fired, but you do get busted.” A fuming Sam sits in an uncomfortable wooden chair i

