hey! get away from there! russell hurries over, extremely edgy, almost manic.
what are you doing?!
you can't! it's very delicate equipment! stay away! just stay away from my truck!
stay away from my truck!
stay away from my truck!
dye master oscillator. and not test, calibrate. which i'm now ready to do.  goggles. when the goggles are on, russell hits a switch. and.  inside the contraption, brilliant green laser beams begin bombarding a sensor. off which.
we're operational. the others remove their goggles. sona checks her watch.
goggles on. everyone puts on goggles. then russell hits the switch, and the green lasers bombard the capsule containing the sliver of stone, which begins to glow. russell announces each passing threshold as a numerical readout on the contraption races up the scale --
 firecracker.  .44 magnum.  r.p.g.  sidewinder.  scud.  tomahawk.  daisy cutter.  hiroshima.  two hiroshimas.  and it just keeps going. until, finally --
 new world order. as the buyers absorb this.
goggles off. russell removes the capsule and hands it back to ling, who holds it up.
i knew it! i knew it!
fucking amateurs! he starts firing. people start running. .50 cal. rounds take big chunks out of whatever they hit.