AK 239: The Enemy Is Already Here

National Security Agency (NSA)

Fort Meade, MD

Fred and Jerry’s office is still filled with Christmas decorations but the trees look wilted. All of the Christmas lights are turned off.

Fred and Jerry are still, eating, staring at the screen of a half dismantled “Typhoon” sub.

“I’m sure that’s not a real sub.”

“I dunno, DNI didn’t answer us. There’s nothing more we can do. It has to be what’s left of TK-20.”

“I’m contacting POTUS!” says Fred.

Ya! ‘Right!’ You’re calling the President of the United States?”

“That’s right.”

“You’re crazy! Like Elsa in Frozen[16] you should just: Let it go, man!”

Meanwhile, behind them, on a huge flat screen everyone else is gathered around watching CNN.

On the TV is TK-20 footage tooling around Alaska with the USS Zumwalt destroyer closely following.

The footage cuts abruptly. The Caption reads,

Fred and Jerry are oblivious to this as they continue arguing, while both eat tuna fish sandwiches from their paper bags.