Fahrenheit 451 Week 1 Assignment

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Ultimately, Popov’s humanity, for the first and maybe last time of his life, wins. After all, the defective communist government which no longer exists is to blame for the poor land management that resulted in the desertification, and he has no desire to return to Russia anyway. After shooting a man to escape the facility, Dmitriy contacts the one agency that can deal with such an unrealistic, massive, and dangerous of a scheme. Also, that agency happens to be the one that he scouted and ordered an attack on, and the one agency that is hot on his heels and out for his blood: Rainbow. In his mind, he has no choice. Hence, he schedules a meeting on “neutral” ground (the Central Park Zoo), in the hopes that Clark will not have the FBI arrest him: …show more content…

As per the plan, Dmitriy tells everything he knows. Without much in the way of hesitation, Clark acts on the information, and a few days later Chavez and a few other Team Two members capture the man who was about to deliver the virus via an air cooling system at the Olympics in Australia. Hearing that the operation failed, the Project staff retreat to their alternate facility in Brazil. Requisitioning an AWACS (airborne warning and control systems) plane from the Air Force, Clark tracks the Horizon Corporation planes from Kansas to Brazil and ascertains the site’s location. As expected, Dmitriy, figuring he has done his job, requests immunity from arrest; Clark persuades the FBI to grant it, much to the chagrin of the agents present. While Popov’s mind is at ease, Clark is not yet out of the …show more content…

Legal solutions may turn out to be no solution at all. After talking with some friends in the FBI and CIA, they come to a consensus that Brightling and his people are retreating to Brazil to come up with a cover story that they can all rehearse and use in court: “”...so, you think they’re going down there for choir practice?”...”They need to find and learn a single story to tell the FBI when the interrogations begin”” (Clancy 698). Furthermore, with so grand an operation, there must be contingency plans in place, such as a plan to incinerate all the live virus samples or delete all related computer files quickly and efficiently, leaving no evidence of what actually went on. As for the man Chavez captured at the Olympics, well, Horizon Corporation can hardly take responsibility for the actions of one nut who happens to be an employee, can they? Even if Popov tried to provide witness testimony in court, he could not succeed in charging Brightling, as he has outstanding charges for murder (as previously mentioned, he killed a man during his escape from the Kansas facility). Unfortunately, this is because Brightling would claim that one cannot charge him and his people merely on the grounds that some roving murderer concocts an outlandish story to cover for his sins. Even he cannot mention the terrorist incidents in court, because that would mean Popov’s conviction as much as it would mean

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