Behind the Green Door

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We discover just how much Michael knows about the world he lives in from the cases he has been assigned. He thinks that management wanting to know what he knows is a waste of time since in a few days he will no longer exist.

He wonders why they gave him the cases they did, if they were worried about what he might find out, considering they knew he was their best investigator.

Alternatively, he begins to realise that some of the cases he had been given were simply because he would find out what happened, and report it back, which in the beginning he did, until he realised that those people were disappearing.

That’s where he realised that those who made trouble for management were best removed. There were no jails, the punishment was removal. He later discovers that there is a specific cleaning squad attached to janitorial services.

And then, in the current circumstances, there were still perpetrators they would want to punish, but he was not going to let them. Up till now, management was still a bunch of invisible people he had glimpsed but never really seen, except for Elsie whom he never told he knew. Oh, and a man named Pemberton, who doesn’t really say who he is, but he is elderly, so by inference, Michael realises Rule 71 doesn’t apply to them.

But he knows if he holds out, management will eventually come, taking him to interrogation, and that last few days would take on a whole new meaning.

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