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== It was an [[Esoteric Happy Ending]]. ==
Hathaway's weapon ''worked''. Blowing up Hathaway's house still proved that it worked; and it's shown that the CIA knew it was a problem with targeting; not the laser function. Chris had given the schematics (the dynamite laser) to Hathaway before he decided against it. Even if the original [[Kill Sat]] was destroyed after destroying Hathaway's house due to the reflected laser; Hathaway and his military contacts would have made copies of this information. The kids notifying the Dean and a Congressman simply meant that there was evidence that ''they'' were working against National Security. The CIA got other [[Kill Sat|Kill Sats]] created; and the kids got expelled and/or arrested.
** Arrested for ''what''? There is no physical evidence of their break-in, and the only thing the Congressman can testify to is that some stranger asked him to meet Dr. Meredith at Professor Hathaway's house the same day it got melted by a giant 'weapons malfunction'. The only person who could possibly finger the kids is Dr. Meredith, and he has no reason to do that because he likes Chris, shares many of his attitudes, and Professor Hathaway was ultimately screwing Dr. Meredith over too.
** Also, the only thing the Congressman had been told was that he was needed for a discussion on something of 'critical international importance', and that the evidence was at Hathaway's house. Since that statement is literally true - the dynamite laser is such a matter, and the evidence of its existence is indeed inside Hathaway's house in the form of Hathaway's lab notes and paperwork - there is plausible deniability on the part of whatever mysterious parties decoyed the Congressman there that they had any foreknowledge of an incoming laser beam.
** Likewise, the fact that the kids knew about the existence of the secret project cannot be used as evidence against them. Of ''course'' they knew about it -- they were the people who'd originally invented it, at the project director's own request!
== It was a straightforward [[Happy Ending]]. ==
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