“Oh, the courier brought this for you!” Sue called, breaking into Michael’s thoughts.
Michael looked at her, taking the proffered package. “Thanks, Sue.”
“This is for the operation where that sweet girl got hurt – the one who was on TV – isn’t it?” Sue asked in a low voice, glancing around to make sure no one else could hear.
Michael nodded. Sue had security clearance for anything that crossed Peter’s desk. Her clearance was probably higher than his own, Michael figured, though he wasn’t game to ask.
Sue’s face was set. “You get those bastards. They deserve everything they get, hurting that poor sweet girl like that.”
Michael nodded again, more gravely this time. He didn’t find the girl all that sweet, to be honest, but maybe she was. Maybe he was biased. “I’m working as hard as I can on it, Sue. It’s my job.” He carried the package back to his desk, determined to make a start on it.
He wrote down Laura’s list again:
Woman in blue
Woman in white
Sports woman
Little angel girl
Doctor
Security guard
He opened the package and took out the bubble-wrapped portable hard disk. Reaching out to plug it into his PC, he hesitated. Like all movies, surveillance footage looks better on a big screen, he thought. Meeting room three looks free…
“This shouldn’t be hard,” he told himself as he hooked the portable hard disk up so it would display on the meeting room’s projector screen. “At least she gave us details we can use to search for them. She could have just used names or aliases and then we’d be stuffed…FUCK!”
Bob, walking past the meeting room, stopped and stared. “You okay, mate?” he asked.
Talking to yourself is fucking stupid. Especially when someone hears you. Michael felt embarrassed. “Yeah, fine. I have a lot of work to do. Can you shut the door?”
The door clapped shut as Bob obliged.
Of course, it’s never as easy as you first think it’s going to be, Michael fumed, looking at the huge list of cameras. They’ve sent me the whole week’s surveillance footage, for every camera in the fucking building. Right, best get down to business.
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