"Yes, Tina filled me in on that. I hope you are able to take this bottom feeder down a notch or two," Ben replied.

"Tricky to do but I'm trying," Walter agreed.

"I have some more contract work that needs finalizing and it seems I'm going to need to pay for expediting these. The demand for the device I designed may be larger than I expected," he explained.

Walter chuckled. "Did you invent the proverbial 'better mousetrap'?"

Ben smiled. "No, just a better filter for radioactive particles."

Walter choked a little. "Geezus..." There was a pause as Walter's mind spun at the possibilities. "The military are going to be all...