 What was shocking about the Stortulian's return to the interview office later in the day?
We had saturated MacTavish IV with our promotional poop for a month preceding arrival. J. F. Corrigan will hold interviews in person on Ghryne from Thirdday to Fifthday of Tenmonth. At the same time, we had turned away a dozen ursinoids, fifty of the reptilian natives of Ghryne, seven Sirian spiders, and no less than nineteen chlorine-breathing Procyonites wearing gas masks. The first harbinger of woe turned up after lunch in the person of a Kallerian. I nudged the trouble-button on the side of my desk and Auchinleck and Ludlow appeared simultaneously from the two doors at right and left.
 He was motivated to commit murder.
 His depression was building to a suicide attempt.  He had morphed into a larger being.  He was motivated to commit murder.  He was disguising himself as another being.