Cmdr. Clifton / new information / no tags

[Steve Bruin]

   *** USS Odyssey/ Silva's quarters ***

>snipped<

Silva: Uh ... uh ... conference

Clifton: Yeah, we already know that.  By the way Doc, good work. He winked at Colin to show how much he appreciated Doc MacLaren helping him like this.

Colin: Let’s make it count, and nice wee device there. Good thinking

:: Silva seemed to be dreaming, or something, as the drug worked on her subconscious mind.

Silva: Uh ... yes ... yes, please.  Yes, please tie my wrists.

:: Clifton rolled his eyes, the woman was dreaming about some weird love fantasy.

Clifton: No, the mission.  What is your mission here on Odyssey.

Silva: Conference ... must get conference and meet Eiserans.

:: Clifton whispered to Colin. ::

Clifton: Her mission is conducting the admission of Eiser Four into the Federation, at least her official mission.  That's what the conference is about, finalizing the admission.

Colin Right, but we need to find out something we dinna already know.

Silva: Conference ... admit them to Federation.

Clifton: Ok, we know, but why are you in such a hurry to get there?

Silva: Must be ... stardate ... seventy-two hours.

Colin:  Why is there such a limited timeline?

Clifton: Seventy two hours?  What happens in seventy-two hours?

Silva: Meeting ..

Colin: A meeting...with whom?

Silva: Rich .. Raul, we'll be rich ... latinum than we can spend.

Clifton: to Colin in a whisper : I guess Raul is her lover.

Silva: Raul, we  ... be together ... find a planet, beaches. Sun and beaches ... latinum. Together and laugh at your wife ... all that latinum.

Colin: I dinna care about her love life!

Clifton: Neither do I, but truth serum is a highly unpredictable drug.

Silva: Once we get to conference ... goth.

:: Clifton looked at Colin in surprise, he wondered what she meant. ::

Clifton: Visigoth? Are you meeting Visigoth?

Silva: No .. conference ... latinum and ... Raul.

Colin: Who are ye meeting at the conference besides Raul?

Silva: Raul ... tie me up .. blue lights and "When The Whip Comes Down" ... song love it.

Clifton: Hmm, if she likes the Stones, she can't be all bad.

:: Colin glared at Clifton::

Colin: What are stones?

Clifton: That's the name of an old Rolling Stones song from the twentieth century. I guess she and Raul like that song.

Colin: making his exasperation clear.: Clifton, I’m not risking my career to talk about some ancient band or her love life...lust life. We need to ask specific questions since she canna lie under sodium pentathol. Why dinna you search her quarters while I ask some questions?

Clifton: Okay, I'll see what I can find.

Colin: Senator Silva, tell me exactly why seventy two hours is important, and why did ye say Goth. What is your mission at the conference?

Silva: Meet .. VisiGoth ... latinum, so much latinum.

Colin: Who else is working on this with you, Senator?

Silva: Me, only me ... outsmart Starfleet ... Starfleet idiots.

Colin: Did ye find anything that will support what she just said?

:: Clifton had located the important suitcase that Silva refused to let out of her sight, removing a device from his pocket he set about scanning the lock and getting the digital combination. What he saw inside, once he opened it, was quite fascinating.

Clifton: Yeah, I sure did.  Look in here, this is recording equipment.  From the look of it, very high tech equipment.

Colin: I’m a doctor, not a lawyer, but I’ve listened enough to Gavin to ken that we have to find positive proof to make a charge. We ken the details now, so we should be able to set a trap, aye?

Clifton: Doc, you're way ahead of me but I'm thinking the same thing.

Colin: We have the who, the what and the when. Do we need anything else? IF not, you get out of here, and I’ll let her come around. If yes, what d’ye need to know?

Clifton: Yeah, I'd better head out.  We know she's planning on recording something and then I suppose selling it to the Visigoth.  That would explain why she's so excited about all the latinum she expects.

Colin: We need to be careful, Clifton. If we blow this, it won’t just be us facing the music. No one will believe that Hannie and Gavin were nay in on this. We canna do that to them.

Clifton: Don't worry about that, Doc.  If this thing goes sideways I'll make sure that the only neck on the chopping block is mine.

:: Clifton already had a plan in mind if he should need it, one that made certain all 3 MacLarens would be viewed as innocent.

Clifton:  I'll head out, Doc.  You see that she comes around and make sure she doesn't remember anything.  I'll talk to the security chief on the starbase and let him know that I have a suspicion about something.  The best thing is to wait and let her think her little plan is going perfectly, we don't dare tip our hand until we have concrete facts to give a judge.

:: Clifton headed out quietly and toward a secure comm station where he could give a few suspicions to the Security Chief of the base where the meeting would take place.

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