Schiller frowned. He looked at Andro lying on the ground, then at the agents filling the room. He coughed twice and said, "I don't know what the purpose of this little performance is, but it's completely unnecessary. Even if you take me back to Moscow, you won't get what you want."
"You have amnesia, don't you?" The man stepped forward and placed a pistol beside Schiller. Then he said, "You don't remember anything now, especially the details of having worked for the KGB, or that you once served as Director of the KGB Eleventh Bureau."
Schiller frowned and turned to look at him. The man saluted him, then said, "Petrov, Deputy Director of the KGB Eleventh Bureau, at your service."
Just as Schiller was about to speak, Petrov pulled a badge from an inner pocket of his trench coat and handed it to him. "I believe this badge should be familiar to you."
Schiller looked at the badge pinched between Petrov's fingers. His eyes suddenly widened, and he took it from Petrov's hand, because he truly did recognize it. It was the Red Banner badge he had found in the Philby List folder.
Schiller was very familiar with this badge, because he had used it several times before to achieve his own ends. In the end, through Kayla, the KGB agent embedded at the CIA station in Metropolis, and her contact, he had sent the badge back to Moscow.
Schiller's idea had been simple. His use of the badge had only been a temporary expedient, but it did not belong to him. Even though Philby was already dead, the badge should have returned where it belonged.
But the next second, Petrov said, "You once instructed us that once the Red Banner badge you acquired returned to Moscow, we were to