The Omega Files

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The Omega Files –
Short Stories
Jennifer Bassett

Introduction

The story
When they were young, Jude and Hawker worked for a man
called Arla, at the European Department of Intelligence
(EDI). They tell three stories about cases they worked on.
Omega File 349: London, England. Jude and Hawker go
to London to find a man called Johnny Cook who has a
strange story about adrug company which they want to

they look at the monster. When Hawker and Jude explain

investigate. They find Cook in club one night, and bring him

that they are from the EDI, the army men explain that the

back to their hotel for breakfast. He tells them that he has a

monster is their new fighter, genetically engineered to kill –

story about the Tyler Drug Company which he is sellingto a

but they are having problems with it.

newspaper for 100,000 Euros. The company is taking young

Omega File 522: Galápagos, Ecuador. The EDI is getting

people off the streets and using them to test drugs. He

a lot of emails from the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific

knows because it happened to him. He and some other

Ocean. They say that visitors to the planet are going toarrive

homeless young people were invited to stay in a

on Isabela Island, in the Galápagos. Arla wants Hawker and

comfortable house, but one of the girls got very ill, and Cook

Jude to go and investigate. They fly to the Galápagos and

overheard some men in white coats talking about her – they

take a boat to Isabela Island. The people of the island are

had clearly been testingsome drugs, called Coplas, on her.

leaving in a panic; they say that a spaceship landed in an

That night Cook escaped, taking some papers from the

active volcano on the island ten days before. Hawker and

house with him. Jude and Hawker return to their office in

Jude climb the volcano to investigate and meet an Australian

Brussels and tell the story to their boss, Arla. But Arla tellswho is waiting at the top for the visitors to come out of the

them that Cook is dead. He fell into the River Thames in the

volcano. But they then receive a radio message that the

middle of the night. And five years later the Tyler Drug

volcano is going to erupt. They escape to their boat – and as

Company began to sell a new drug called Coplastin. Was this

they are leaving theisland the volcano does erupt – and the

the same drug?

Australian is probably killed. Hawker thinks he saw a

Omega File 451: Loch Ness, Scotland. Arla shows Jude
and Hawker a photograph taken at Loch Ness in Scotland.

spaceship fly out of the volcano just before the eruption –
but Jude doesn’t believe him.

It’s a very bad photograph, but they can see something big
and grey comingout of some water. It seems to have arms

Discussion points

and a head. Arla tells them that it’s killing animals around the

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loch, and he wants them to go and investigate. They arrive at

science or about extra-terrestrials – that they keep a

the loch and talk to a farmer who has lost sheep during the
night. He tells them about the killing, and also that there is a

Do youbelieve that governments know things – about
secret from most people.

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The television programme The X-Files shows a number

strange army laboratory in the hills above the loch. Jude and

of investigations of strange things. Can you remember

Hawker get a boat, and start to spend a lot of time going up

any of the stories? Do you think they could be true?

and down the loch. They findother sheep that have been
killed, but they don’t manage to see what has killed them.
One night they meet some army people – also in a boat. The
army tell them that there is no monster and that they should
go home. But every night more and more sheep die. Jude
and Hawker get six old sheep and leave them near the
water, watching carefully every night. One night something
comes out of the...