[In this particular lab, all is quiet... too quiet. The blue emergency lighting here is flickering dimly, giving everything the same eerie glow as the rest of the tower, and then some. In response to his voice, something clatters over and a flash of white breezes by behind one counter.]

[There's a soft mechanical hum, and a tired face appears around the corner of one cabinet.]

Haff hyu been followed?

[The scientist has spent too much time fighting off these stupid bugs for some bulb-headed marine to come in with a hundred on his tail.]