Truth Time

As a top-secret government agent, Catharina had been trained to extract information from people by any means necessary. However, when she was assigned to extract information from a dangerous criminal who had been captured, she was given a new tool to use for the interrogation: truth serum.

Catharina had heard of truth serum before from her colleagues and from the books and TV shows she had watched but had never seen it in action. The serum was a clear liquid injected into the subject’s arm with a syringe, and it was supposed to make the subject tell the truth, no matter how hard they tried to fight it. She sat in the interrogation room chair across from the hardened criminal, who was hog-tied to the opposite chair. Catharina then stood up, injected the serum into his arm, and sat back down, waiting for it to take effect.

At first, the criminal seemed unfazed by the injection. He just stared at her with a blank expression. Then, slowly but surely, he spoke as if in a deep trance. He told Catharina everything she needed to know. He revealed his accomplices’ names, the location of their hideout, their plan for their next heist, and where said heist would occur.

Catharina was amazed. She had never seen anyone spill their secrets so quickly like that unless she watched the Wonder Woman movie for the umpteenth time. She realized that the truth serum was a powerful tool that could help her extract information from people quickly and efficiently. Yet, as she left the interrogation room hours later to report to her boss, Catharina couldn’t help but feel a little uneasy. She knew using the serum was controversial, to say the least, and she wondered if getting information from people using it was ethical or humane.

Ultimately, Catharina decided that using truth serum was a necessary evil. She knew that sometimes, to protect the greater good, she would have to use every tool at her disposal, no matter how uncomfortable it made her feel. Besides, fighting for the greater good is part of her job description.