It gnaws at him all through the afternoon session, which is all about the communications links joining Kinakuta to the wide world. Randy ought to be paying attention to this, since it impinges massively on the Philippines project. But he doesn’t. He broods over his keyboard, contaminated by a foreign touch, and then he broods about the fact that he’s brooding about it, which demonstrates his unfitness for Biz. It’s technically Epiphyte’s keyboard—not even his—and if it enhances shareholder value for sinister Eastern nerds to poke around his files, he should be happy to let them do it.