"Hi Liz," says Paul in the voice he thinks of his 'patient' voice. "Like I said, I'm Agent Smecker, and yeah, I'm FBI, not that it means a hell of a lot here. Ex-FBI, whatever. ...Paul, if you prefer.

"The thing I'm talking to you on? It's called a tablet. It's your key out of the room if nobody else has explained that yet. When you go through the door you're going to be in a building; outside the building is an entire city.

"If you can still make yourself believe it's all a prank once you've seen the city... then you've got greater control over your mind than I do."