George Wilkins was Juliette’s lover and a Mechanical worker whose supposed industrial accident Bernard now acknowledges was deliberate killing.
George worked in Mechanical, never married, and was secretly involved with Juliette. She found him dead, and Holston and Marnes investigated his death with her help. The case was closed as an industrial accident. More than three years later, the memory of his loss still returns to Juliette when she encounters another corpse.
Searching for the George addressed in Juliette’s poem, Lukas identifies the deceased mechanic as its likely subject. His records indicate that he would now be thirty-eight and show a handsome man with a square jaw, wide nose, and dark eyes. Bernard Holland identifies him as George Wilkins and says he and others planned to expand the silo down to levels one-fifty and one-sixty. Bernard considers those ideas dangerous and acknowledges that George was deliberately killed.
George’s ID photograph shows a handsome man with a square jaw, wide nose, and dark eyes. He would be thirty-eight if alive.
A deceased mechanic whose plans for expansion and concealed murder expose the danger of forbidden ideas.