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Garreth and Hollis, pretending to be location scouts for an untitled movie, enter an eight-story “live-work” building [“built on an entirely different scale”] on Powell street with the Pelican case, a tripod and leather apron. After verifying a direct line of site to the shipping container and checking the radiation level of the case, Garreth assembles a rifle [“biomorphic, counterintuitive, like something from a Max Ernst landscape”] and prepares to shoot nine Remington silvertips full of medical cesium into “evenly spaced along forty feet of Cor-ten steel” along the bottom of the shipping container filled with super spoiler. [658 characters]