One day as Drozin was working on graphic novels and his boss, Bob Turner, was watching a cable channel to get ideas for subjects that could be novelized by Wow, a program came on titled “Mysteries of New York City.”

“We first thought it was simple theft of tools and vandalism.  But after we put cameras up to catch the thieves, we caught this on DVD,” said a work foreman in the water tunnel excavation site as he turned to his laptop computer and turned on the screen. 

In the green light of light intensification, some bulky people wearing little more than rags were seen picking up all manner of tools and smashing digging equipment.  They looked almost like the classic Neanderthal cave man.  But the disk was real and the people were doing theft and damage.  How they appeared and disappeared at will was a mystery. 

In the next interview, a workman spoke into the camera. 

“Pete, George, and I were assigned to guard duty last week to see if we could catch the guys who did damage.   For the first couple days there was nothing.  But on Wednesday night, we heard some pounding in the tunnel where the drilling mole is located.  We walked up there to check it out and saw in the shadows what we thought were muscle-heads.  We shouted at them and they took off. 

“The next night, the same thing happened.  We scared them off.  But they were back a couple hours later.  That time, one of them threw a wrench at us.  It hit Pete in the chest and dropped him on the spot.  We took him to the elevator and had him brought to the hospital to be checked out.  The wrench had broken a couple ribs.  But he’ll be all right.

“Starting Friday, we had half a dozen guys down here making sure the, whatever they are, from doing any more damage or taking anything.  So far they haven’t come back.  Our guys are armed in case those things get violent and attack one of us.  At least they don’t come out during the day.”

Drozin entered the office and handed his latest novel over to Bob who said, “Hey, get a load of this.  They’re talking about some kind of ape men under the city.  It sounds like a job for Mr. Amazing.  Maybe you ought to check it out in the water tunnel they’re digging after work.”