"Snapper!"

He almost stumbles into the room, and Dinah starts forward to catch him, pulling a hankerchief out of her jacket to clean up the blood.

"...tried to kill me," Snapper manages. "But I got away."

"He did this to you?" she asks. Simon, the representative of their funder? "Why?"

"Because I know now. The alien we've been looking for - it's him. And he's not..."

But before he can finish the sentence, an alarm sounds.