Agent Smith of the Secret Service -- that was his code name, he was actually Agent Jones of the CIA -- pressed the earphone deeper into his aural canal and frowned.
"Yesterday's statement is inoperative. Yesterday's operative has a statement, which is that his stateroom lacks a telephone and the phony television is on the fritz, in that when you turn to channel 13 and pull the brightness knob off, instead of displaying the view from a small camera embedded in the ceiling of the briefing room it simply displays a test pattern; moreover, the test is high school geometry which is fairly disturbing in itself.
"Correction to previous message: for 'Vorpal and Morpork are coming through the tunnel' please read 'Mooble and Comstock are requesting a funnel'."
Agent Smith sat back in his chair and pulled out the earphone; it continued to gabble distantly ("Gautama Buddha is in the house, hoo-ah hoo-ah"). Sometimes he just wasn't sure whether the bad guys were taking their jobs seriously any more.
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