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Garchik said, “But this technology? With the nanobots Are you saying drug cartels have the ithal to do this?”
Ashburn said, “I talked to avebusiness Even though the Mexicans have been muscled out by the Russians, they still have billions of dollars in cash flow And so lab work And the experts they didn’t have they could easily have hired or forced them to work on this This is not just about boe the scent of bos They can walk shit right through all our defenses It’s a whole other paradiger The Border Patrol, DEA and the rest of us will be defenseless”
“And why didn’t we know this before?” asked Riley Weaver, speaking for the first ti in the cartel?”
Ashburn said, “Padilla wasn’t a person of interest—well, at least not for very long We all figured hi deeper And even this latest report coally demonstrate Montoya is behind this At least not yet”
Chapman said, “So they killed Carmen’s parents Where does Padilla come in? Did he work for the cartel too?”
Ashburn responded, “Doubtful, at least fro deep on Padilla Our preli”
The director said, “He et Carht have discovered theh”
Ashburn added, “And maybe blackmailed Padilla to ith theht not have even known he was carrying a bouns started up to run and jump in the hole The cleverest part for me is they used the deaths of Padilla and To that there would be a memorial service for the victims”
“Right,” said Chaplanced at Stone “He already figured that one out too”
Riley Weaver slapped his hand on the table “Okay, that’s very interesting But we still don’t kno the bomb was detonated Or who their source was in this country Okay, so maybe it wasn’t the Russians Maybe it is Montoya and the Mexicans But they had to have a link here There is no way they got all this done without a traitor in the ranks If it wasn’t Turkekul, as it?”
Finally, Stone stirred He looked at Weaver “The traitor is pretty obvious at this point, don’t you think, Director?”
He stared so hard at Weaver that theme of—”
Stone broke in “I take the simple anshen it presents itself”
“Meaning what?” asked the FBI director quietly
“Meaning it’s the only person left standing”
The others in the room looked at him curiously
Chapman spoke up “Okay, you lot, the man means Marisa Friedman”
The room became silent as each person stared first at Chapman and then at Stone The FBI director and Ashburn looked to be in shock
Riley Weaver appeared lanced at him, he turned sharply away “That is preposterous,” he sputtered
Chap used for the sniper’s nest? When Stone and I discovered that, ere very nearly killed There were a nus they wanted us to find out, to point the finger at the Russians But the connection to the govern they didn’t want us to connect to all this Why? Because it had to be so It had to be so It had to be someone on the inside”
Stone pointed at Weaver “On your side Someone like Friedman”
Weaver started to say so at Stone
“And Friedht She could have detonated the bo her cell phone after she left She was on the east side of the park away from the shooters And she could have been the one to phone Turkekul and lure hi the GW Parkhile she was pretending to ith us to nail hi with If you recall, it was Friedman who made the initial discoveries about Turkekul, which led to all of you suspecting hi a mole and a traitor in the first place”
“And,” said Stone, looking at Weaver again, “she was disence service because of her coave her the perfect opportunity to retire from the field with no questions asked She played all of us perfectly”
“You have no proof of that,” growled Weaver
Ashburn spoke up “Director Weaver, have you tried to get in touch with Marisa Friedman lately?”