Well, yes. Apparently, at the time, bringing a foreign national (such as an European exchange student participating in the same program to see the host individ

Well, yes. Apparently, at the time, bringing a foreign national (such as an European exchange student participating in the same program to see the host individual's non-classified experiment) to the lab after 5PM was a bad thing. Bad things at national labs get an armed response very, very quickly. Armed responses are by definition pointing weapons at people who they might need to shoot. It was actually more surreal than scary for me, but I had grown up on a rez and was a bit more fatalistic than the other passengers in the car. I guess we made for a rather harmless test of the response speeds.