Agent Appleton did his daily search on Collective activity and found some pattern matches showing up when certain encryption activity was present on publicly routable networks. Agent Appleton was shocked when he noticed all coordinates of the matches were strangely concentrated in and around Milford, that town where he helped that woman who got hacked a couple weeks ago.

This couldn’t be a coincidence.

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Helping Ellen Watson wasn’t Agent Appleton's primary goal—finding what possible network activity that placed a member of The Collective behind her keyboard was. Agent Appleton needed to know what technical information could possibly be in the logs that were gathered by the FBI forensics team. The only problem was that team was already overcommitted and equally overworked. He needed to find a technically capable person that would keep a secret. Maybe that Henry fellow...assuming he wasn’t a Collective spy.