Agent Smith convincing super soldiers to ignore Captain Freedom

“Six, this is Twenty-one,” said Harrison. “Sir, Mr. Smith was very precise with his orders on the prisoner. He believes she’ll be good leverage against the—”
“Twenty-one, this is Six,” barked Freedom. “You are not taking orders from Mr. Smith, you are taking them from me. Is that clear?”
The super-soldiers shot a few confused looks back and forth. They looked at the cell Stealth was in. Then they looked at the man in the good suit sitting on the desk across from them.
Smith opened his eyes wide, as if something had just occurred to him. “They couldn’t be forcing him to say all that, could they?”
Their eyes opened wide, too. “St. George,” said Polk, “the Mighty Dragon, he’s probably strong enough to force the captain into something.”

Excerpt From Ex-Patriots, pg 532-533
Peter Clines
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