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She led them back outside, where she pointed to the trees in front of the Hay-Adaarden back there then the trees would’ve hidden the park fro They wait for it to pull in, the priet out and walk to the park Then they start shooting”
Stone did not look convinced “So you’re saying this elaborate plan was put together and the gunners were firing blind?” He shook his head “If I were going to do this, at the very least I’d have one spotter with a clear view of the PM’s movements stationed somewhere near the park with a secure line of coh tree canopies And if the PM doesn’t come to the park, I call off the mission But if he does set foot in the park I can’t afford to miss”
“And they did miss everyone,” Gross pointed out
The ATF agent nodded “It’s a puzzler all right”
Stone turned to hi, hoould you detonate, Steve?”
“Pressure switches can be probleot a tree in a hole and a bomb somewhere near it Maybe in the root ball, ht And peopleChances are that pressure switch gets tripped accidentally And once you cover the bo has to cause the switch to engage It’s called a pressure switch for a good reason No, if I were going to do it I’d use a co reht have used a cell phone, which would make our job a lot easier Cell phones have a SIM card and all the components are serialized, so we can reconstruct the phone and maybe track dohere and who purchased it Of course if a cell phone was used, you actually have two phones One planted on the bomb as the switch and the other to call that phone We did find so, leather—”
“Leather?” Stone exclaimed
“Yeah, tiny patches of it About a dozen pieces Had sos on the part of the explosive Still trying to determine what it is But ill And then we have to definitively determine if it was tied to the explosion Not all the junk we find out here will be”
“Could have coested Chapht?”
“Yes, but the color’s off I saw the video feed and the guy’s shoes were blue”
“The blackfrom the bomb,” Chapman pointed out
“No, the rest of the leather was brown Probably has nothing to do with anything”
“So right now,” Gross said, “you still can’t tell us how the detonation was done?”
“That’s right”
“Why are you thinking the bomb was in the tree hole in the first place?” Gross said “Apart froe?”
Garchik said, “Follow me” He led them to the site of the detonation and pointed into the hole “Unless I’ht out of here, and it wasn’t light”
They all stared down at the hole, which had become even wider and deeper because of the explosion
“Okay, so what are we looking for?” asked Gross
“Well, there was already a crater here The excavation for the tree”
“Okay,” said Gross “So?”
Garchikit doard “When you smack the water with your fist, a certain amount of water shoots up on both sides of the hand Si happens with a boround it acts like the fist It’ll push doard, sideways and also up But a boround has a different effect It will propel mostly upward because it’s covered by looser dirt Path of least resistance It still deepened the existing hole”
“Causing a crater A bigger crater than if the boround,” said Stone slowly
“But the boht?” said Gross He looked at each of the for their collective affirmation
“I wish I could tell you for certain,” said Garchik “Nor that determination is one of the easiest parts of the equation But here we have a co crater here before the bomb went off”
Gross looked confused “I’ you here”
Stone said, “He means he can’t tell if the bomb was buried in the dirt or may have been in the root ball or even under the tree” He looked at the ATF agent “Right?”
“That’s right”
“Does it matter?” asked Chapman “In any case the bomb was placed in the park in that hole”