Re: X2U-238: Shot in the Dark 2
In reply to Bar'tok (msg # 187):
"Well Praise Holy Mother Mary for small favors!" Kaspar responds to Bar'tok's outburst, "Welcome to a universe that is far more exciting - and far scarier - than you could ever imagine while serving under the Goa'uld, my boy! Hilda, I am sincerely sorry for this, but could you take the wayward young Bar'tok, here, in hand and explain the realities of the universe to him? I know you'd rather cut your own teeth out of your head with a dull knife, but, after Freyda, you're the next best thing to a Jaffa expert we have - and you heard me ask General Hammond to send us a Free Jaffa to do this, but there just aren't any available, at the moment."
"So I'm afraid I have to ask you to deal with it, while I deal with..." Kaspar turns back to glare at Wilhelm, "...Rajip's replacement."
"Alright, buddy, let's clear a few things up, right now." Kaspar growls in his upper mid-west accent, "First, I know you're a fake. I'm a Linguist, so I saw right through your 'pretending to hide a Euro-Trash accent' right off the bat. I've been there, and I'm doing that, right now! I've had the same infiltration training - maybe not as in depth as yours, but sufficient to the job. I've also spent years working with KGB and GRU operatives, and while the smell is different, the stink is the same -- you're CIA. Right? Or one of the other Alphabet Agencies of the Americans?"
"They think it's bad enough that there's only two Terrans on a Team made up of representatives of our off-world allies -- especially an Asgard! But it had to have been just eating at the CIA that a former Soviet Red Army Intelligence Officer was running the Team! So they decided to pull the US Ranger they had watch-dogging me and replace him with a CIA Spook they're trying to pass off as a clueless civilian contractor."
"Well, okay, Mr. Innocent Civilian Contractor, sir, before we figure out how you can be 'of assistance' to our mission, here, perhaps you could tell us just what it is that you do?"