Nick Chapman is basketball coach at the Malestrom County Regional High School in Serviceville Ohio. He is being interviewed by Jane Crouper, a television reporter for the Serviceville Nightly News.

“Coach Chapman, how do you feel about the complaints from parents that their children don’t want to be part of what they call the Malestrom Social Experiment in being forced to play basketball with a two headed student, or the joined twins I should say, Jim and Joe Bauer? The other kids even resent having to take classes with him. The parents say it’s more appropriate for such an individual to attend a school for challenged students.”

“Jane, I’m a very liberal minded guy, and believe in treating every student with respect and dignity, even if they are a little different from the majority.”

“But, what about respect and dignity for the majority students? Many are thinking of quitting the team. They say it just isn’t fun anymore, the Bauer twins slobber all over the court. One of the team members slipped in it, fell, and broke his wrist. They say it’s just not fair.”

Chapman offers only a smug defiant smile.

That night the interview appears as part of a magazine segment at the end of the world, national, and local news. Anchorman, Farnum Granger, does an editorial with an intercut of the Bauer twin heads arguing savagely with each other. This too results in a really huge puddle of slobber. The high school janitor of fourteen years is interviewed, sadly contemplating whether to seek a new job,

“I have to clean this up almost every day. Sometimes there is urine and feces. I applied hereto work at a high school, not a hospital.”

Ted is watching all this as he finishes dinner.

September 22, 2029

2:20 P.M. Basketball practice is called off at the last minute. Coach Chapman is walking the Chapman twins out to the bus area. Ted is in a cluster of trees four hundred feet away with a scope rifle, just taking aim at Chapman, when an oversize pickup truck roars up and stops. Out jumps an angry father with a .357 Magnum pistol. He glares at Chapman,

“My son is on your team, and has been having nightmares, you damned Socialist Hell-rotter.”

He raises the pistol and shoots Chapman between the eyes. Then he turns to the Bauer twins and says gently,

“It’s not your fault. Go with God, both of you.”

Then he shoots each twin between the eyes.