Summary

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Back at home Control feeds the cat, then kicks back to reflect on the weirdness that had been his day. The fact that the director most likely made one or more unsanctioned trips across the border did not set well with him. He opens his briefcase to retrieve some files and finds three cell phones in there instead of the two that he normally carries. It is the old nonfunctioning phone from the director’s desk. How had it gotten in there? The last he’d seen of it, Grace had confiscated it. Surely she had not returned it.

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As a point of matter, the next day in his office, Control takes a paintbrush and paints over the words scrawled on the inside of the closet/door to nowhere. It took nearly three coats, but most of it was finally erased. The...