November 8, 2005
Week 28 - Impossible Dreams 11
Episode 2
Lamont washes and he and Powell join Lucy in her dark office.
"Are you sure you're all right Daddy?" Lucy asks.
"Of course!" He fingers the chain around his neck. "Captain Camouflage's booby traps can't hurt me, so long as I wear the Coyote's Fang!"
"Um, Lucy," Powell says. "Can I speak to you for a moment?" She looks from her father to Powell and nods. They step out to the dim hallway. "He was taking a wrench to the circuit box!" Powell whispers. "He could have been killed. He's getting worse, we have to get him help."
Lucy shakes her head furiously. "No! You didn't hear what Myrna said. She has no faith in my expansion plans at all. If it wasn't that she trusted my father's recommendations, there's no way I'd get her proxies! If she found out... We have to keep it up till the shareholder's meeting!"
"That's not for four weeks! At this rate, I'm not sure he'll survive till then."
"It's your job to protect him! Why'd you let him go off by himself in the first place? I thought I could trust you!"
"Um... That's not fair... I was..."
Suddenly, the lights pop on.
Lucy shakes her head. "We'll talk about this at home... Now we have to..."
"That's it!" they hear Lamont shout from the office. They run in. He is standing in front of the screen on the wall, which once again displays the drawing of the large wind turbine.
"What is it Daddy, what's wrong?" Lucy asks.
"Nothing, my dear, nothing at all." He stares at the screen. "Everything is fine."
Lucy looks at him and shrugs. "I have to go find Mark and Myrna," she says. "God knows what garbage he's feeding her." She steps toward the door. "Stay with him!" she whispers sharply in Powell's ear, as she passes him. She walks out to the hallway.
Lamont rests his palm on Powell's shoulder and points to the screen. "I've got it, my boy! I've finally got it!"
"Um... Got what?"
"I know where Captain Camouflage is planning to launch the second component of the Illusion Ray Satellite!"