-At 10.30 a.m. local time, 32 civilians, all within a ten-block radius died. They didn’t get sick first. They simply hit the ground dead.
-Nerve agent?
-Our first guess. No.
-They all died at the same time?
-As far as we can tell, to the second.
Your reputation is well-deserved.
-Specialises in high energy weapons. I do geomagnetics. So calling us means you suspect an electromagnetic pulse weapon. If these are the only fatalities, they must be people susceptible to electronic interference. QED pacemakers.
-You’re spooky sometimes?
-Now, I need to know, did some sort of weapon kill these people?
-The power that you would need to create an EM pulse strong enough, that’s… that’s not a weapon that I’ve ever heard of.
-OK, we’re done.
