You will neverreturn to your pitiful old life. How could you? You would be shunned byyour family and friends. The only people that will accept you are... thepeople at SPECTRE. You will become a Guardette and will be completelycontrolled by SPECTRE. There's no way back."With that the doctor takes the radio from her belt: "SPECTRECONTROL, thisis Doctor YX," she says, "We have a small problem here. The new recruitis putting up resistance. His will is not broken yet. He's not ready forthe medical. It must have been difficult for old Willy to keep the more hardened sailors away from a boy like that Connor thought, considering the type of crew he had on board. DeClan took the whistle from Mal and looked it over, he had felt a sense of grief well up in the girl as she handed the whistle to Mal, he had also felt a great sadness from the big man Savas when she had done so. Laurel poured herself a cup of tea "what does it say? the inscription on the side" DeClan read it for her "Allora, may. The chilling video showed a man being put to death by ?double clutch? hanging.The luckless man was first made to stand at attention as a ratcheted metal garotte was placed around his neck. This garrot could not be loosened nor undone. It necessarily resulted in the victim’s strangulation. As he struggled for breath, he was hanged by the neck with the traditional hangman’s rope. Suspended in the air with arms and legs free, the hapless naked male kicked, flailed, writhed, jumped and convulsed. "We can always change for the date, so you can stillgo." He felt embarrassed about it himself, for suggesting that they tradeagain, after finally getting back to normal. At least a few minutes ago. Susan thought about it too, surprised, but finding the idea attractive forsome reason. They could change back for the date, but she knew sheshouldn't. By then she probably wouldn't even be interested anymore. They stared across at each other, each considering this. Susan found thatshe had a few.