“When we get there, I’ll take you to a nice seafood place,” Rob leaned over and said excitedly. For someone who had lived in DC before, it probably felt like a small homecoming trip.
“I’m looking forward to it,” Jimin said.
Jimin and Rob were on a flight headed to Washington, DC. They had hastily planned their return as they were scheduled to meet with Jack Egan, the president of Smith-Backs Company. To Jimin’s surprise, Rob had gotten an interview with the president and had invited Jimin to come along. Apparently, he had requested and been approved for an interview using his position as a university professor, under the pretense of doing academic research on the prison industry.
Jimin reckoned that going in as an FBI agent would only make the president apprehensive and make it harder for them to pinpoint Corvus. On the other hand, if he pretended that he was Rob’s assistant, he would most likely slip past without suspicion. Having successfully gained permission from Heiden, Jimin had hastily booked his trip to accompany Rob back to DC.
“Are those the bomb attack sites?” Rob asked as he leaned over from the seat beside him to peer at what Jimin was holding. In Jimin’s hands was a map of the USA clipped to a folder, riddled with dots in black marker.
“Yeah,” Jimin said. “There’s been something nagging me about what Corvus said over the phone.”
Alpha was going to be the finale, but I wanted to leave a mark in LA for your sake.
Jimin had been wondering what those words meant.
“That is intriguing,” Rob said. “If LA was a special case, then that means that he planned to bomb all of the other spots from the very beginning.”
Jimin and Rob continued to speak with lowered voices.
“And if that’s the case, there has to be some significance in the locations of all the bomb attacks. Once we can get to the bottom of that, we can figure out where he plans to bomb next – he called it Alpha.”
“Let me try something,” said Rob, taking a ballpoint pen and connecting four of the dots. He drew a line connecting the bomb sites in Michigan, Florida, Montana, Utah, and ended up with a warped trapezoid.
“Hmm, but this leaves out Arizona, right underneath Utah. We would get a better idea if it made some kind of shape, but this…”
Jimin’s eyes were glued to the trapezoid that Rob had drawn and the solitary dot that was left underneath.
“…I’ve seen this shape before.”
“Where?” said Rob, looking surprised as he leaned in.
“I don’t know. It looks familiar, but I can’t seem to remember it. What is it? I swear I’ve seen… ugh, this is frustrating,” Jimin grumbled as he grabbed fistfuls of his hair. Rob patted his shoulder lightly in sympathy.
“Maybe something will trigger your memory later.”
“Yeah,” Jimin said, trying to suppress his frustration. As soon as he closed the folder, the seatbelt sign came on, and a voice over the PA system announced that they were preparing to land soon.
Once they touched down at the National Airport, Jimin and Rob headed straight to FBI headquarters. Heiden kept his snide tone in check as he met Rob and expressed canned words of gratitude for Rob’s cooperation in the case. However, he didn’t forget to firmly warn Rob to keep all the information he had learned through the investigation strictly confidential.
Heiden also had good news for them. He had obtained a list of members that had attended MSC, the military camp that Nathan had gone to. If Corvus was in the list, it would give them a lead to finding out his real name and identity.
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