"Sometimes it's the enemy," a

Communications expert explained to the people assigned to the exercise.  The exercise was to arrive at an airport and open an investigation into a damaged plane. 

  "Again, and you'll hear my team say this a lot, sometimes it's the enemy, that's pitched float devices or messed with an interior panel." 

  "Can you believe we're going to have to do all this in real time?" A suited-in-Tyvek woman asked no one in particular.  Only two young people chuckled.  One flashed a perfectly white teeth smile and offered to let the woman look at something on his checklist.  "You two gonna stand around and be buddy, buddy all day?" A man with no inflection in his voice asked the commenting: interesting. 

  "Maybe if you weren't out to eliminate everyone who might be on your team, you'd have a team," Another woman said to a guy who'd boarded the parked plane in jeans and a shirt and tie and immediately griped about what kind of team doesn't let a guy know they're leaving the hotel.  "Don't look at me.  I slept in my car," one of the young people said. 

  "How would we know what happened if stuff is missing?" 

  "Excellent question!  You wouldn't." 

  "Like need to know and you don't?" 

  "Yes.  That's partly on purpose to get better answers.  So don't take procedural stuff personally.  And, in this exercise, the assignment is to open the investigation, not solve the mystery." 

  "Okay." 

  "Thanks." 

  "Look at these." Someone held up a pile of magazine inserts with flight maps on them.  The expert suggested bagging them and leaving them where they were as she swabbed DNA from the toucher's hand.  "In the field, this all would've been photographed before we came aboard as admin." 

  "It was," a man said loudly as he came out of a bathroom. 

  "And who are you?" Someone asked.  He pulled a business card from a shirt pocket and held a well-manicured fingernail under a company name.  "It's private.  You people probably never heard of us." A young person plucked the card from his hand and pocketed it.  "We'll look it up.  I wouldn't hire anyone that scares the shit out of a bunch of people like that." 

  The man looked around at the faces looking at him and left the plane.