Chapter 5

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Ominous words followed by an annoyingly pleasant laugh as the elevator door slides shut. Alone together, Guard Gloria now dons a cattle prod, and John Dullsworth Tubbs is quite well bound. As a precaution, unknown to the prisoners, the guards and staff wear hidden beneath their attire, a special electrical grounding device. If somehow mishandled, perhaps wrested from a careless guard, the high tech cattle prod will not shock anyone so grounded... but instead, zap the person pulling the trigger. Thus it is the perfect weapon for the close confines of Lockwood. It only works one way. The slow moving elevator grinds downward. Unbeknownst to most persons observing the prison from the outside, most of the facility is underground, carved into the granite rock. Therefore, when Warden Laura David

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