"It’s a hell of a thing," Sosik said, pursuing the ritual. "We’ve had Al bugged top to bottom for weeks. His nervous system’s bugged, his bloodstream’s bugged, his stomach is bugged, his colon is bugged. He did public MRI scans, he did PET-scans, he drank tagged apple juice—the inside of his carcass was a goddamn public circus. And when we finally got him off all the monitors, that’s when he goes haywire."