Randy doesn’t know what to make of the Wing business. It puts him in mind of Doug Shaftoe’s yarns. Maybe Wing is looking for the Primary, and maybe Enoch Root is too, and maybe the Primary is what Old Man Comstock was trying to find by decrypting the Arethusa messages. Maybe, in other words, the location of the Primary is sitting on Randy’s hard drive right now, and Root’s worried that Randy, like an idiot, is going to give it away.