Wait, is this about the incident last week? I was assigned underground at the time, but I saw the broadcast.

[And he didn't take immediate action, because--]

I kind of thought that was authorised.

[He soon enough gathered that pretty much no one was happy or impressed with the experiment, but there'd been such a lack of disruptive elements among the otherworlders that he didn't anticipate an open act of villainy or, at best, misguided mad science.]

How'd it get sorted out?

[The police asking this really speaks volumes...]