And that was odd. Why so elaborate a ruse—just to get in the door? Why not just muscle your way inside? If the pair were going to pose as missionaries, why not choose a simpler scam? It would have been easy enough to boost a bible from a hotel and pose as garden-variety Christians. Why use simsense chips from some weird, apocalyptic fringe group? I doubted that they’d had time to boost the chips locally, which meant they had brought them all the way from Aztlan.