Complementary objectives

Rufus was ready for his mission. He still had problems with his speech though. Without realising it, this was an advantage. People were at pains to be tolerant of him for fear of being thought discriminatory. He seemed simple.

Rufus was far from simple! He could get away with murder!

With encouragement from the machine, he made plans. Rufus was planning to find Marcus, make him suffer, then kill him in revenge for the treatment Marcus had meted out to him.

The machine's objective differed. It planned to extract the contents of Marcus's brain via Rufus... for the time being...!