Geoff Burns is a 35 year old physicist from Texas who has no family or close children. This is about as much information one would get from asking about him, as two weeks ago at the motel it seemed as if he was a man on the verge of breaking down. As nervous as he appeared, he would have been reluctant to leave, and one of the last onto the bus. Searching the internet for Geoff would return little other than citations and papers he has authored in the field of particle physics.