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The Scientist:
From the moment I met him, I knew he was crazy.

The scientist's home stood on a hill: dark and brooding. Often, it contrasted with the bright sunshine and pale blue sky. But there it stood nonetheless, brooding and sulking. Whenever the scientist left the house, he carried the house's broodiness with him. It was apparent the man was up to no good.

From the local rumor mill, I learned his laboratory was in the basement: high tech and, obviously, not as secret as he intended. What he was working on, people only speculate.

Trucks with large barrels of chemicals would arrive regularly to the house on the hill. The black containers displayed the skull-and-crossbones image that warned others of the content's toxicity. It was stuff to be handled with care, but the burly men who delivered the barrels shifted them to the ground with an oblivious kind of ease. They did not seem to cast a thought in the direction of the scientist's intent. As though there would not be any lethal consequences. One must wonder if the scientist even knew the extent to which his actions would reach. Quite the long arm of ill intention.

When I met the scientist, it was at the hardware store and he was asking strange questions about various tools and vegetation-related equipment. Questions that your average, run-of-the-mill gardener wouldn't be asking about his or her new garden hoe.

"What kind of damage could this thing do to a human body?" The store clerk merely looked at the ruddy-faced man as though he were turning green and growing antenna out of his head.

"Human body?" These were the only words the clerk managed after a few minutes of pondering just who the human body recipient would be.

"Yeah, to get a gun means meeting with 'red tape'. I want something ordinary, but handy - something the government can't keep me from getting." With a stupefied shake of his head, the young clerk stepped away from the babbling man and toward his cash register. It was from this moment on that I decided to see just what The Crazy Scientist was up to...