Laura was discreetly silent. The crew were still chagrined at her for disappearing earlier. She had run off to get in touch with David and had come back unconscious in a cab. She had told them about meeting Sticky. Their first thought was to inform the Government—but the Government had all that news already. The spring guns, the pellets, the mines—the acting prime minister, Jeyaratnam, had announced all that on television. Warned the populace—and shut them up in their own homes.