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They brought the courier — who gave his name reluctantly as Theo Banks — into an interrogation room at the precinct, Osei authorizing the session quietly given Ryu's official reassignment made his presence there technically irregular. Jin Rae led the questioning, Ryu watching from the observation room with the particular, focused attention he'd learned to bring to every interrogation since Cho's own confession months earlier. "Tell me about the target list," Jin Rae said, settling across from Banks, the damaged server drive sitting between them on the table as a deliberate, pointed reminder of exactly what he'd been caught attempting to destroy. Banks shifted uncomfortably, his earlier panic having settled into something more controlled but no less frightened. "I maintain hardware. That's all. I don't see target lists, don't know what any of it's actually for." "You tried to destroy evidence the moment you realized we might be watching," Jin Rae pressed. "That's not the behavior
Chapter 146
They brought the courier — who gave his name reluctantly as Theo Banks — into an interrogation room at the precinct, Osei authorizing the session quietly given Ryu's official reassignment made his presence there technically irregular. Jin Rae led the questioning, Ryu watching from the observation room with the particular, focused attention he'd learned to bring to every interrogation since Cho's own confession months earlier. "Tell me about the target list," Jin Rae said, settling across from Banks, the damaged server drive sitting between them on the table as a deliberate, pointed reminder of exactly what he'd been caught attempting to destroy. Banks shifted uncomfortably, his earlier panic having settled into something more controlled but no less frightened. "I maintain hardware. That's all. I don't see target lists, don't know what any of it's actually for." "You tried to destroy evidence the moment you realized we might be watching," Jin Rae pressed. "That's not the behavior
Chapter 145
They brought the courier — who gave his name reluctantly as Theo Banks — into an interrogation room at the precinct, Osei authorizing the session quietly given Ryu's official reassignment made his presence there technically irregular. Jin Rae led the questioning, Ryu watching from the observation room with the particular, focused attention he'd learned to bring to every interrogation since Cho's own confession months earlier. "Tell me about the target list," Jin Rae said, settling across from Banks, the damaged server drive sitting between them on the table as a deliberate, pointed reminder of exactly what he'd been caught attempting to destroy. Banks shifted uncomfortably, his earlier panic having settled into something more controlled but no less frightened. "I maintain hardware. That's all. I don't see target lists, don't know what any of it's actually for." "You tried to destroy evidence the moment you realized we might be watching," Jin Rae pressed. "That's not the behavior
Chapter 144
Sarin had the damaged drive's contents partially recovered by the time Ryu returned to the office the following afternoon, still carrying the lingering fatigue of the previous night's unexpected energy expenditure, though considerably steadier than he'd been a few hours earlier. "It's not a clean recovery," she warned, as he and Jin Rae settled beside her terminal. "Banks's attempt to smash it before we stopped him damaged the drive's controller board. I managed to extract about sixty percent of the data before the rest became unreadable." "What's in the sixty percent?" Jin Rae asked. Sarin pulled up a file directory, considerably more organized than the chaos of buried transfer requests they'd uncovered in the division's inherited files. "A list. Case numbers, mostly — cross-referenced against what looks like a priority ranking system. High numbers, low numbers, some kind of scoring." Ryu leaned closer, scanning the recovered entries. Dozens of case numbers populated the list
Chapter 143
The First Meridian Savings branch on Calloway Street sat between a shuttered pharmacy and a dry cleaner, a narrow building with a faded green awning and a security camera that Jin Rae suspected hadn't recorded anything useful since the previous administration.She arrived at opening, dressed in a plain gray coat and carrying a folder of fake pension-audit paperwork Sarin had assembled in forty minutes the night before. The teller behind the glass, a young man with a name tag reading DESMOND, looked up with the specific weariness of someone expecting a long morning of complaints."Pension verification," Jin Rae said, sliding her credentials across the counter. "Retired municipal employee accounts. We're confirming active recipients as part of an annual review.""Is something wrong?" Desmond asked, though his eyes had already gone to the badge."Routine. I need to confirm who collects on one account in particular. Harlan Voss." She watched his face as she said it. No flicker, no recogni
Chapter 142
Sarin had the damaged drive's contents partially recovered by the time Ryu returned to the office the following afternoon, still carrying the lingering fatigue of the previous night's unexpected energy expenditure, though considerably steadier than he'd been a few hours earlier. "It's not a clean recovery," she warned, as he and Jin Rae settled beside her terminal. "Banks's attempt to smash it before we stopped him damaged the drive's controller board. I managed to extract about sixty percent of the data before the rest became unreadable." "What's in the sixty percent?" Jin Rae asked. Sarin pulled up a file directory, considerably more organized than the chaos of buried transfer requests they'd uncovered in the division's inherited files. "A list. Case numbers, mostly — cross-referenced against what looks like a priority ranking system. High numbers, low numbers, some kind of scoring." Ryu leaned closer, scanning the recovered entries. Dozens of case numbers populated the list, mo
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