AK 239: The Enemy Is Already Here

Fishing Trawler

Jen is looking through the binoculars again and reading Morse code.

“Permission… to… come… aboard?”

Stone is angry,

“No! No! I don’t want no damn Russians in Alaska!”

Jen staring at him asks,

“Does your wife wonder if you’re human?”

“All the time!” says his son, Tony.

“So what are we going to do?” I say looking through binoculars.

“Aw hell, invite ’em to the party. They just saved our lives!” says Stone quickly changing his mind.

I look at Jennifer but neither of us can argue with Stone this time.

Stone pulls out a flashlight from his pocket.

“So who’s talkin’ to ’em?”

“Toss it,” I say and Stone tosses me the flashlight.

I begin to flash Morris code to Vasili. I then walk to a cabinet and Jenn says, “What are you doing?”

“I’m looking for something to eat. Aren’t you hungry?”

Jennifer cannot believe us two Huns but she turns her attention to the Iranian,

“Can’t wait to see what your little friends will do with you.”

General Badakur looks up with a bleeding eye, a black eye, and a shoe imprint matching Stone’s boot on his forehead.

“Not so tough without your submarine now, are ya?” says Stone.

Jen is thinking, “Isn’t that a movie reference?”

“Are you for real? Were you in?” I ask.

“Nam. Vietnam. The big one! I was eighteen months in the bush and I can snap your neck in a heartbeat, sonny.”

“Really, really, you’re gonna do movie lines from Tom Hanks and the ‘The Burbs’?”[11] says Jen.

“Okay, you caught me,” says Stone.

“Blazing Saddles! Unbelievable!” I say.

Jen has been monitoring TK-20 with my binoculars,

“He’s coming in.”

She hands the binoculars back to me and I take another look.