On the first day of the week and month Carla arrived at the Pharma Inc. laboratory in New York to attend the job interview. She had read up on the subject with Henry’s help, and the questions raised at the interview seemed routine. The previous employment records for Carla had been carefully checked. The Organization was meticulous in their preparation of her background and had people in place to vouch for her.
The interviewer in Human Resources took Carla down to the laboratory where she would be working and introduced her to the five member team, as Carla Walters.
There were three women and two men. Jane Foreman and Dean Wilson were the senior chemists, Mary White, Fiona Kennedy and Steve Brown did technician’s work. Dean Wilson was the replacement for the dead man, Bernard Long.
The Organization had arranged for Carla to stay with a family who had a room to let. This was consistent with her low pay scale and unknown length of employment contract.
The family, Mr. & Mrs. Rabinowitz and their teenage son, were welcoming and Carla had a generous sized room.
She never minded roughing it, when on a mission; it was part of the job. At other times, she and Max would have stayed at the best hotels. Their combined wealth from diamonds recovered from the Zenobia wreck, a stamp from the Hungary mission, a priceless statuette Max had recovered from the jungle in southern India, falsely transferred funds from an FBI arms bust and cash stolen from Philippe, amounted to about £60million. In their eyes, the money was irrelevant. Getting away with it was their reward.
Carla arrived at Pharma Inc. reception at 7.00am the following morning. She was taken to a training room for new employees and given the standard induction course with briefings.
The laboratory security had been tightened since the potential of the drug was discovered, which now included physical searches and body scans. There appeared to be no way of getting anything in or out of the laboratory.
That evening, Carla made a phone call to the in-house I.T. expert at The Organization. Her review of the computer system revealed a high level of security.
“The largest perceived threat is from outside,” he said, but you’re working on the inside, where the system is less secure.”
The I.T. expert explained how she could escalate her security access by watching the company’s own I.T. technician as he showed her how to log on. He has to enter her details onto the system, so that it will accept her. To do this, he logs on with his own credentials. She must remember every keystroke. The system will now be wide open to her.