She scans her lists. Drs. Liron Phalen and Ben Hill are about as clean as the average person. Phalen changed corps once in violation of contract. Hill once got drunk and crashed his car into a neighbor’s garage. A few other individuals in the Metascience Group are reputed to have various affiliations, through friends or family, that might be deemed questionable. Mercedes loads a select group of names including those of Phalen and Hill onto a datachip, then jacks out and keys her desktop.