Commander's Dais, K'Tael, and Garibaldi were in the central security office
discussing the events with the severed hand.
Joe and Dais explained what they had found out in their conversations with Mr.
Allso, the courier that brought the hand on board. That he picked it up at
Viar's Oasis and dropped it off in the Bajoran Embassy. Allso had personally
handed the container over to the Bajoran Ambassador's Chief of Staff- Rivik.
K'Tael told the other officers that he had spoken to one of his CIs
(confidential informants) and had made a discovery or two himself. In fact,
K'Tael had spoken to his mysterious friend, Tom, about it, and Tom handed over
some recordings and a scan of the Ambassador's office.
In a nut shell K'Tael told Dais and Joe that there was quite a lot of talk
about the hand and the investigation. The Ambassador read the riot act to
*both* Rivik and Relik for their mistakes and failures at keeping the "item"
secret, escorting it through customs as planned, and keeping the investigation
low key. K'Tael also conveyed that there was a rough plan to get it off the
station, and dispose of it before anything else unexpected happened. Rivik
was told to put a call into Rear Admiral Markus Garibaldi and to Rear Admiral
Zorin to get their assistance in calming things down on the Starfleet end, and
to help get their dangerous package off the station.
The scan was the icing on the cake... It showed a container with the hand in
it inside of the Ambassador's office. It also showed that Relik left with it.
The conclusions were: 1) they did not have much time before the evidence was
gone, 2) the pressure was about to increast with possibly some Starfleet Brass
weighing in on the matter on the side of the Bajorans, 3) they could not
search the embassy or the ambassadorial staff's quarters, but they could
intercept the package in transit- maybe, and 4) no matter what happened, big,
powerful people were involved...
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