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(It'd been a shot to the head.)

In London, the victim's friend was worried.

He, an MI6 agent, hadn't heard anything from his retired colleague.

( That worried him. )

The scene was Chelyabinsk-70, home to the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute Of Technical Physics.

An American, Carter Carlson, found something there.

He had the opportunity to do so because of his career, which his childhood'd led him to.

' Carter loved comic books. And, from an early age, his career plans were simple - he was going to be a superhero. '

His childhood in the '60s was him playing pretend with his sister Rosie, while his father Richard watched.

' Richard had spent his childhood and teenage years with dreams of making it in the pictures, before his father helped him realize just how impractical dreams were to have.

' Richard wondered if, one day, he would have a similar conversation with Carter. '

( Time passed. )