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within our agency who are in league with Markus Boyd, the
man responsible for the attack today. I need you two to study all the employee
profiles in this office, and come up with a hypothesis on which people we need
to investigate. Then conduct an investigation. Keep all of this quiet, though.
I don’t want to make anyone feel as if they’re a suspect. We need to be together
right now more than ever.”
    “Do you have any leads on what type of
person we’re looking for?” Jason asked.
    “Unfortunately, I don’t.”
    “All right, we’ll do things the hard
way then,” Burt said as he stood.
    Jason followed him, and they exited the
room.
    “So what’s the plan?” Burt asked while looking
over at Jason.
    “A lot of profiles and even more coffee,
I suppose.”
    “I’m glad that we get to work together
on this one. Maybe this will be even more memorable than my mission in Iran
last year,” Burt said.
    Jason looked at Burt strangely. Burt
had never been to Iran. He had never understood why Burt felt the need to make
up such stories around him.
    “You’ve never been to Iran, have you?”
    “Oh, I was there all right. I can tell
you all the details of the op and everything.”
    “So if I went through some files on
missions in Iran, I wouldn’t find a file that matched your story, only with
another agent’s name on it?”
    “We’ve been over this before. I went by
a different name back when I was an agent.”
    “Okay. Whatever you say,” Jason said
and grinned.
    He really had to give it to Burt. He
might have been a liar, but he was definitely a committed one. Once he told a
story, he stuck to it forever.
    Nathan and Sam were still staring at
Markus’s profile, but so far, absolutely nothing stood out to them.
    “How in the world are we supposed to
project where he is just based on this?” Sam asked.
    “I have no idea. It would be so much
easier if we could find someone who worked with him and had direct contact with
him.”  
    “That’s it! Nathan, you’re a genius!”
    “Yeah, I know. Wait, why am I a genius?”
    “Sandusky. Jeffery Sandusky. He ran an
entire portion of Markus’s company. Don’t you think that he had plenty of
contact with Markus over the years?”  
    “Yeah, you’re right. Do we know where
he is now, though?”
    “No, but I can find out,” Sam said as
she got up and started walking to Campbell’s office.
    Nathan followed her.
    “Where is Jeffery Sandusky right now?”
Sam asked.
    “Why?” Campbell asked.
    “Because we need to know where Markus
has gone, and we believe that he may know,” Nathan answered.
    “He’s in a secret CIA prison in
Houston.”
      “Secret prison? How do you keep something
as big as a prison a secret?” Nathan asked.
    “I don’t know. It just looks like a normal
prison, but no normal criminals are housed there.”
    “Well, I need you to authorize us to go
to Houston and ask Jeffery Sandusky some questions,” Sam said.
    “Consider it done, and by the way, it’s
nice to have you back. You did some great work out there, even without the
support of your agency,” Campbell said in an almost apologetic tone.
    “Thank you, sir,” Sam responded, and
then she and Nathan exited the room.
    “So are you ready to get on a plane
again?” Nathan asked sleepily.
    “Not really. We haven’t slept in what
feels like forever, but maybe we can both catch a little bit of a nap on the
plane.”  
    * * * * *
    Back in Lee’s hospital room, evening
was quickly approaching, and Michael and Lee had fallen asleep. Jess, on the
other hand, decided that now would be a good time for a shower. She made her
way into the bathroom and started to turn the water on. As she reached for the shower
knob, she heard the hospital room door open. Chloe was walking straight up to
Lee. She had walked right past the hospital staff. At this point, the staff had
given up on limiting the visitors in Lee’s room. As Jess took a peek out from
behind the bathroom door, she saw