It pained Nigel to watch Ralphie leave with Rick. His teeth ached. He realized that he was clenching his jaw.

“I hate that man!” Nigel spat.

“I have some news about the Taker,” John said, looking up from his phone.

“Is the FBI looking for him?” Nigel asked.

“After you provided the video footage, I sent it to a friend of mine in the FBI. He could gather additional evidence that the Taker was involved. The Smith family filed a missing person’s report on Josephine. We could verify your findings on the cameras at the coffee shop and the dock. Based on this evidence, my contact could generate a yellow notice from Interpol,” John explained.

“What’s a yellow notice?”

“It’s a global police report for a missing person. Since Interpol is an international organization, yellow notices gain a much higher visibility at an international level. So if they spot Josephine in a member country, the police will arrest anyone with her,” John said.

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“Well, that’s something, but I will not stop looking for Jet,” Nigel said.

“There is something else going on. I know nothing about networks, but this seems like misdirection to me,” Natasha said.

“Based on Nigel and Jet’s network analysis, we could find a lead on a hacker. We believe he is one of the suspected network attackers,” John said.

“There’s more than one attacker?” Natasha asked.

“Based on preliminary evidence, there’s at least one more.”

“And . . . this is the part where you tell us who it is,” Natasha said.

“As you know, I was a member of the bureau’s high-tech crimes unit. People like the Taker often work with others to get the information they need. We knew he was working with someone, but we didn’t know who until now.”

“Who?” Nigel asked.

“We found an unencrypted mailbox on a cloud server. It only took a short while to find his accomplice. His name is Elmer Stephens; his Dark Web call sign is the ‘Photoist.’”

“I assume you will arrest this guy,” Nigel said.

“I was getting to that. We questioned Elmer and provided on basic identity information on the ‘Taker,’ but we already had this information,” John said.

Nigel put his hands over his face. He was so tired!