The omega files

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 a drug company which they want to investigate. They find Cook in club one night, and bring himback to their hotel for breakfast. He tells them that he has a story about the Tyler Drug Company which he is selling to a newspaper for 100,000 Euros. The company is taking young people off thestreets and using them to test drugs. He knows because it happened to him. He and some other homeless young people were invited to stay in a comfortable house, but one of the girls got very ill, and Cookoverheard some men in white coats talking about her – they had clearly been testing some drugs, called Coplas, on her. That night Cook escaped, taking some papers from the house with him. Jude andHawker return to their office in Brussels and tell the story to their boss, Arla. But Arla tells them that Cook is dead. He fell into the River Thames in the middle of the night. And five years later theTyler Drug Company began to sell a new drug called Coplastin. Was this the same drug?

* Omega File 451: Loch Ness, Scotland. Arla shows Jude and Hawker a photograph taken at Loch Nessin Scotland. It’s a very bad photograph, but they can see something big and grey coming out of some water. It seems to have arms and a head. Arla tells them that it’s killing animals around the loch, and he wantsthem to go and investigate. They arrive at 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 strange army laboratory in thehills above the loch. Jude and Hawker get a boat, and start to spend a lot of time going up and down the loch. They find other sheep that have been killed, but they don’t manage to see what has...