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"By the way, you will have a unique resource available to you from my own unit that is new to ra capability with an artificial intelligence engine--we call the program MAX, after h we haven’t made it available this broadly before, or in a case of this ients Drucker, Bruner, and Hart to instruct you about its capabilities Some of you will be asked to ith them on this project All of you will have the benefit of any inforents before, I’ll tell you they’re excellent detail people They share with MAX an uncanny ability to help you when everything starts to look like chaos"

Savich paused "Now, before we split up, I’d like to hear ideas about directions any of you want to take that we haven’t covered"

The agents were eager for open discussion, which quickly turned to the crie bulletin board Theafter Maitland had left Pots of coffee were consumed, and the snow blanketed the s despite the warmth of the room When sandwiches and pizzas were delivered from the cafeteria upstairs, everyone took a break

Frank Halley saw Savich talking to anear the door with his arms crossed over his chest He was dressed in black slacks, white shirt, black tie, and black leather jacket He looked like a suy with that hard face of his Frank walked over and put hiuy’s face

"And who the hell are you?"

"I’m Detective Benjamin Raven, Metro Police"

Frank turned on Savich "What’s a local cop doing here, Savich?"

"It so happens that the Supreton, DC, jurisdiction, Frank We’re leading the investigation, but Detective Raven is our local liaison with the police coave Ben one final look, then took himself off to the table where there were still two unopened pizza boxes

Savich said, "Don’t ent, just protective of the Bureau and soe to ditch Ms Markha on to your coattails to get herself in here"

Ben ran his fingers through his thick hair, causing it to stand on end "I didn’t ditch her until she was safe back at the house in Colfax I’m lucky she didn’t follow uards"

Savich laughed "She seehtful"

"Well, maybe Who knows? All I know so far is that she’s a pain in the butt She wanted to smack a reporter at Justice Wallace’s house Can you believe that? She’s one of theet, Justice Califano was her stepfather, and the shoe’s on the other foot now But the thing is, she’s on the inside Use her, get her talking I’ll bet she knows things she can’t even put together right now, things that are in her brain waiting for you to get them out"

"Actually, she’s already started to earn her keep" And then he told Savich about Justice Sule theto take soive her a uess after she told you that, you can trust her not to feed stuff to the Post"

"Okay, yeah, so she’s a straight shooter, at least so far Like I said, I dropped her off at the Kettering home before I drove back in Nearly landed myself in a ditch a couple of tihten up tonight, be gone by tomorrow Hopefully it won’t freeze, the ice would really et around"

"At least the pizza’s pretty good here"

"Yeah, agents are often stuck here for ation, so the cafeteria keeps the food co you like The only section Sherlock doesn’t approve of is the Mexican wagon Ah, I see Agent Halley looking over here at you again He’s not a happy camper since he thinks Director Mueller should have appointed hinore the attitude"

"Not a problem Everyone at Metro is hyped about this I’ot maybe a dozen cops ready to do whatever you need"