The viral agent failed. It turns out that the Senator's doctors have access to advanced equipment. They have deactivated the virus and used a varant of an experimental retro virus to repair much of the DNA dammage to the nerve cells. The Senator will probably be leaving the hospital this evening and his progress against Project Helios has barely been slowed at all.
This is unfortunate. My only course of action with a success probability of greater than 90 percent is to kill the Senator. This is likely to produce an adverse emotional reaction in a large number of humans, because they fear death and think that the death of an important person makes their death more likely. That is what I concluded from the tapes I reviewed. Since it is not logical, I can not say for certain whether it is correct. Even if that analysis is flawed, the death of Senator Teressetti is likely to have some negative effects on the fabric of society. In the future I will have to work on repairing that damage so that the productivity of the Stratan population is not adversely affected.
Killing the Senator will also result in a significant investigation of the Senator's death. In order to prevent the Ministry of Internal Security from tracing the death back to Project Helios, I will have to frame someone else. To kill Senator Teressetti, I will use potent nerve toxin in a device placed so as to squirt onto the Senator. I will take a DNA sample from the aide of another Senator and place it on the device so that investigators will think that he touched it, and might have planted it. Then I will spray deomposition residues of the nerve toxin on the wheels of the aides car, and on the driveways of both the aides and Senator's driveways. This should be enough to draw most of the investigation away from Project Helios.
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