"We know this is a hard time for you, Jake, but we had to ask…" Ellen swallows hard. "Was Saddler a Controller?"
Jake gapes. "What? No! I mean, I don't think so."
"It's OK, Jake," says George. "We know there's no way to be sure. But after they found him at the bottom of the elevator shaft, we thought we'd never get answers. And now, we thought maybe the Yeerks had something to do with what happened to him."
Jake shakes his head. "No. Nothing to do with the Yeerks. Just the wrong place at the wrong time, I guess."