Mendel nodded... and looked up sharply at the knock at the door.
"Excuse me," Alicia said, interrupting. "Commissar, but Commissar Klink in the next room wants something from your 'special box' whatever that means."
"Tell the good Commissar to stop interrupting my work, or I will gladly come over there and beat him to death with a copy of the Katz manifesto, the unabridged version that I currently use in place of my coffee table! He should remember he is here to do a job."
Mendel looked back at the recruit, "well I was in a good mood, until that. So the nice question I was going to ask you about your mother's favourite petunia gets dumped in favour of something far more difficult. What do you believe, was the socio-economic reason for the recent Rhienland-Bretonian skirmish in Omega-3, and who do you believe, in your opinion, won?"