Harshaw had prepared a time bomb but did not propose to trigger it until the powers-that-be forced him to do so.  He had realized at once that the government could haul Smith back into captivity on the grounds that he was incompetent to look out for himself... an opinion with which Harshaw agreed.  His snap opinion was that Smith was both legally insane and medically psychopathic by all normal standards, the victim of a double-barreled situational psychosis of unique and monumental extent, first from being raised by non-humans and second from having been translated suddenly into a society which was completely alien to him.