“What are you playing at with this?” said Nick. “You’re a scientist, right? You know that there are some crazy things out there - vampires, werewolves, wizards or whatever you want to call them - kinesthizers. So you must know that there are bad guys, too, right? You know we didn’t have anything to do with the terrorist bomb plot.”
Dr. Humboldt listened with the stony patience of a parent being lectured by a child.
“So, yeah, I don’t think I’m going to be able to help you recreate Dr. Norris’ work from my memory alone in a couple of weeks. Why go through all the song and dance with this? Why are holding us here like prisoners when you could probably already have this thing out in front of the public and us, safe, in someone else’s custody?”
Even as he was saying what he was saying, it started to dawn on him what Dr. Humboldt’s response would be.