 What convinced Casey to go to Jupiter?
Sure, the crystals are deadly, but I was smuggling them legitimately, in a manner of speaking, for this doctor to experiment with. But—and this was the 'but' that was likely to deprive the System of my activities—even experimenting with them was illegal even if it needed to be done; also, I had promised not to rat on him before taking the job. And instead, blast me, if they didn't foul me with this trip to good old Jupiter. Jupiter was a death sentence. "You've no doubt heard tales of the strange population of Jupiter," he said. We possess well-authenticated photographs of these inhabitants, and if you are prepared to visit them and in some way worm from them the secret of their anti-gravity field, the government stands ready to issue you a full pardon as well as a substantial monetary reward. That whole Kooleen caper: Had it been just a trap to lead me straight to this? Well, a cross between a scorpion and a grasshopper, to be accurate. "I just made a pass at the Killicut Emeralds, that's all, and got nabbed." "What were you trying to do, start a feud between us and Mars?" Those emeralds were in the inner shrine of the super-sacred, super-secret temple of the cavern-dwelling tribe of Killicuts on Mars—the real aborigines.
 Pard told him he'd lived through it
 The Government offered additional money  Pard told him about the perfume  He learned that Pard had a friend there  Pard told him he'd lived through it