"Mr. Robinson please report to the lab."

I hopped to my feet and wondered what they had discovered. I kept praying I was wrong but the moment I entered the lab and saw their faces I knew it was the gate.

"How bad is it?"

"As bad as it gets."

"Let me see the numbers," I asked and the screen showed me a worst case scenario. "Fuck... run the security footage and the sequence side by side." We watched as the moment before the prisoner vanished and the gate did an automated scrubbing of its buffers. "What the hell. Why would that trigger this kind of effect?"

I looked at...