The Mission Is Never Over—Last Things Last
Photo by Philip Greenspun . It was 4 pm on a weekday in the city of Boston, MA, and the Agents' case officer had directed them to Government Center—or rather, to a dead drop in the parking garage across the street from Government Center. In a stairwell out of sight from parked cars and security cameras, the members of this new Delta Green task force held their first mission briefing. Special Agent Wren Harris of the FBI, flown in from [DATA REDACTED] Dr. Malachi Danielson, a field botanist with the Massachusetts Division of Fish and Wildlife Dr. Rex Marianetti, the best medical examiner at the worst hospital in Denver, CO The dead drop was a broken guardrail: someone had stuffed a manila envelope inside the hollow tube, concealing a burner phone, a key, and two documents written in code. Rex, a man of many hobbies, decoded their mission objectives and a profile of a former agent codenamed BEAN COUNTER. It turned out BEAN COUNTER's body had been removed from his apartment the pr...