Requiem: Chapter 19
Philip couldn't believe it and yet it stood for him in black and white.. There were new outgrowths to formed a number of nerve cells. New dendrites at Michael who had made new connections with other cells. That just didn't happen. There was absolutely no talk of schizophrenia here but of DIS or 'Dissociative Identity Disorder'. There had been no signs of acute psychosis or longer calmer psychoses. After all, they would have noticed this at an earlier stage, because normally schizophrenic behaviour occurred between the fifteenth and thirtieth years of life. And the senator spoke of facts that would have happened recently. Before that, Michael had always been the lapdog, one that ate out of the hand of the team.
It was a common case that people confused schizophrenia with DIS. It could have been caused by repeated sexual abuse by someone from the family environment and often at a young age. They knew that this factor was definitely present with Michael. Jim McFinster had now discovered a small spot on an old scan from before Michael's operation, a slight haze that should not be there, barely a few millimeters large. Either they had just missed it then, or they simply didn't want to see it. The end legitimizes the resources and at that moment the million-dollar project that was almost about to fail by a 'little blur 'on an EEC would soon be overlooked. A small problem that one slipped under the mat. Fixed!
According to Jim, that blur was a damage, it could have been caused either by assault by his mother in his younger years or by the martial arts he practiced before he was operated on. To be sure, they should have Michael on the spot themselves to thoroughly examine him and take new photos and scans. Indeed, this could be the cause that Michael did things that his own brain imposed on him independently and that did not go with his assignment. An alter ego, another personality that was formed and listened to all those voices. A new Michael who could be a lot more dangerous, especially for his client.
This was also what he had written in his report that before the senator called him out of bed for the second time, he had forwarded by mail. It was encrypted and encrypted according to the usual procedure.
