In a surprising turn of events, the machine once feared to have intercepted Southeby's escaping soul has now reportedly detached itself. Part of an out-of-this-world scenario which began last week when Paul Southeby emerged from his office with a computer-like mass gripped to his skull, the machine appears now to have given up, though leaving Southeby dead. Family members remain in complete disbelief but are, however, very relieved to know that Southeby's soul will be allowed to escape. The terrifying end to this chapter came when chief CPU sheriff gandi howard finalized the negotiations with the evil computer that exchanged three terrabytes of open server access for Southeby's soul.