zach was on the other side of mr. solomon , his breathing steady and even , and i knew that the blackthorne institute had either trained him very well or very poorly , because he seemed indifferent to the fact that he was locked in the back of a van with eight expertly trained teenage girls , a man who ( according to tina ) had once strangled a yugoslavian arms dealer with a pair of control-top panty hose , and ... dr. steve .