A Boat Load of Problems: the tenth mission

Robert Lawson
Regional Director

One hundred thirteen dead bodies in a shipping container at San Diego. Normally problems of this sort are not our concern but one of the people wasn't quite dead when the container was opened, and she exhibited signs of psychic powers before her death. Further on scene investigation revealed that it was likely her influence that caused the container to be opened in the first place.
Using the cover of possible terrorist development of bio weaponry, the local office was able to examine the bodies and container. Latent impressions showed that approximately thirty percent of the inhabitants were psychically active before they died, remarkably high. As you are aware, only forty five percent of our agents are psionically active and we actively recruit the most likely candidates. Initial background checks to identify the deceased have had very little success, though the few hits have all been for peasants and other low status inhabitants of poor countries; not usual candidates for psychic activity, especially in such high rates.
I've decided that the local agents don't have the man power to properly investigate this situation, so I am sending them some aid. For obvious reasons, I will not be using Department 8 agents; rather, I've decided that their recent string of remarkable successes has earned Edwards's team the opportunity to return to California and figure out this case. I have every confidence that their various talents will allow them to bring this to a successful resolution.