Deception Point 8

Marjorie Tench decides to call the NRO director William Pickering in order to leave Rachel with no allies in the "war with the president" that Tench believes is now occuring. Pickering does not believe Tench and has confidence in Rachel. Immediately after Tench's call, Pickering gets another call from Rachel. Rachel explains all the evidence she has found to prove that the meteorite is fake. William Pickering believes her and decides that they should get off the submarine and into his office because whoever wants to kill them is coming for them! Senator Sexton realizes that he was tricked. Rachel and the others are finally taken from the submarine onto a helicoptor to safety. Ekstrom finds out that there was a submarine close to his NASA base and becomes outraged then he gets a call from Marjorie Tench infroming him of Rachels "intentions". Just as Senator Sexton had lost all hope the leader of the space frontier foundation arrived at his house and was strangely optimistic. He said that he was not sure that the PODS repairs were actually made. If that were true that took away all the credibility of the extra terrestrial life, and Senator Sexton's campaign would be rejuvinated. Delta One is informed that their mission has failed and are ordered to finish the job. Senator Sexton convinces Gabrielle to climb back on ship with him after he tells her his plans for a comeback and a crippling blow to the Herney administration.