Boy oh boy, what to say about Doc Templeton here... He's a grouch. And a slob. Greasy, smelly, overweight, anti-social... But despite all that, he's still a brilliant inventor. Give him a few minutes in the pile of garbage he calls a lab, and he can cobble up together almost anything! For instance, that thing on his shoulder? It's his 'Toasterizer'. I asked him about it, and he gave me some tech-talk about using the heating coils and a funnel focus to create thermo-sonic waves of energy, or something. I wondered if it still made toast. "'Course it does," he said as he pointed the thing at me, "How you want it? Light, drak, or vaporized with a side of scattered atoms? You got five seconds to decide." My decision was to beat a hasty retreat. The smell stuck to my clothes, in any case, and I had to burn them later.

So, misunderstood genius, or mad scientist? You ask him. He probably has heat-seeking silverware by now.