TEXT: MONTE VIDEO : Two vehicles, including a van, drive up to a monastery. Monks gather in front as Arvin Clone steps out of the car. Monk: Mr. Sloane, welcome to Mount Inferno Monastery of the Vespertine Order. AC: Thank you. Monk: You will forgive us our cautions. AC: Of course. Another monk sweeps him as we see another monk holding a rifle. AC: Hunting season? Monk: Come. Father Kampinski is waiting. Monks close the monastery gate as we see the Rambaldi eye at the top. We go inside. Kampinski: Mr. Sloane. AC: Father Kampinski. Thank you for agreeing to meet with me. Kampinski: What can I do for you, Mr. Sloane? AC: Our institute is mandated to develop methods to counter terrorism. We have, of course, heard about the work you've done here. And, you know, wanted to perhaps- Kampinski: Our bees are not for sale. AC: Well, of course they're not. What we wanted was your...knowledge, not your insects, per se. I understand, you've bred the aggression out of them. Kampinski: This is not strictly true. The aggression is there. The nee for it, happily, is not. Come Mr. Sloane. I'll show you. Outside. Watching bees mess with the flowers. There are monks everywhere. Kampinski: Our bees have an exceptionally venomous sting. They're very hard to antagonize. They choose productivity over aggression. Aggression is a distraction, which is why we're able to work among the apiaries without the traditional protective garments. AC: Remarkable. Kampinski: There is so very much we can learn from these exquisite beings. AC: Fascinating. Kampinski: They're imbued with a kind of grace- unlike so many humans. AC: And you've achieved that grace? How? Kampinski: Monte Inferno, we're dedicated to the- the marriage of supposed opposites,
SUMMARY:
"Arvin Clone" raids a monastery for a Rambaldi orchid from which an anti-aggression drug can be made, one which his power source, the Mueller Device, can reverse. In CIA custody he displays Sloane's memories. He is the product of an SD-6 Psych-ops specialist's experiment. Sloane contaminated world water supplies when he was with OmniFam, and with the orchid, the "clone's" employer can render hundreds of millions passive, finishing what Sloane failed to do. The team decides to break the imposter by imprinting him with Sloan's most painful memory-the very thing that sparked his Rambaldi obsession. Sloane re-visits in his memory his dead wife, Emily, and the time when his baby, Jacquelyn, died. Arvin Sloane must decide whether to return to Nadia and repair the damage he has done to the world or live in a dream.