When the lights had come on again, Colin sat staring at the blank screen for a long time. Finally he sighed, stood and stretched.
"Well," Banning said. "What do you think?"
"I'll want to see it again. But it's pretty clear, I think."
The general looked up in surprise. "Clear? It's just the same thing I told you."
"Oh, no," Colin said. "You left out the most important part."
"What was that?"
"Your boy is blind and deaf."
"Blind and deaf! You're crazy. The ship, he looked at the ship, and the microphone, and...."
"Oh, it's pretty selective blindness," Colin said. He filled his pipe with maddening slowness and lit it before he spoke again.
"People," he said finally. "He doesn't see people. At all."