The radiographs will help Lie characterize the joining technique and distinguish ancient work from modern repairs. The industrial x-ray team, consisting of three men in blue jeans, finally arrives. A second man holds a coiled wire cord on a large reel, while a third grips a yellow lunchbox. They are accustomed to making images of welds in the steam-bearing pipes of power plants. Classical bronze statuary is somewhat beyond the pale of their experience.
Lie distributes radiation badges and leads the unlikely looking crew past the museum guards.
Though Harvard's office of Environmental Health and Safety has thoroughly scrutinized the procedure, the guards' apprehension seems to increase with each assurance that the radiation will not reach them. Eventually they decide to relocate their security station to the next building. Under the film they slip a lead sheet that will prevent the steel cart on which she lies from scattering radiation back up into the film. Finally, a second wire is run from the far end of the lunchbox to a position directly above the statue. Now the whole group backs out of the lab and into the hallway, paying out wire from the reel on the gamma ray projector control.