All right, as a quick recap, protein C and S deficiency refer to two separate hereditary hypercoagulable disorders that involve the inability to inactivate factors V and VIII in the coagulation cascade.
Reporters in Moscow who had been staking out the American Embassy there first got wind this morning that Daniloff might be released, after he left the Embassy in a car and flashed the V for Victory sign.
The lesson here is that any time you have one of these linear transformations whose output space is the number line, no matter how it was defined, there's going to be some unique vector V corresponding to that transformation.