jake stared down at her with a blank expression . `` this is the only way , and it 's the right way . good crops or bad crops , it did n't make any difference . i could n't look him in the eye , so i just kept wiping the dishes dry and placing them where they belonged as i spoke . we do n't hold much hope for that . at four o'clock , the control panel went dark , and the lights went out , and the hard drives erased any record of what had been done . 