Behind the Green Door

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In what seems to be a malfunction, Miranda takes Michael to what appears to be a spot where there is no surveillance and tells him that she has another program in her computer core that can only be activated by Michael using Elsie’s name.

Michael believes this is a trap set by management, but to what purpose?

Before he can, what appears to be secret police and a technician arrive, but Miranda has shut down. He is taken back to his bungalow where he is met by a man named Pendleton.

A man who is much older than the 65-year limit.

Michael knows this is one of the facility management team, and fully expects that he is there to take Michael to the interrogation centre where the answers he is sure management wants to know will be extracted.

He is not there for that reason. He is simply there to advise Michael to answer the questions put to him by Miranda. He admits she is a robot, and also there are shortcomings in her programming.

Another revelation, Pendleton is Elsie’s uncle. Of course, this is true, because Elsie’s mother married one of the Pendleton brothers, of which there are four. This much Elsie had told him, and that she had preferred not to stay with them, hence her seeking a husband outside the management sphere.

Did that mean that their meeting had not been a random occurrence?

Did she marry him in order to spy on his father, and him. After all, she had met him at a meeting of the Brainstrust.

Also, there is that visit by Elsie’s aunt after she died…

There are so many directions this story can go…

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