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make
their case before the action starts?”
    “ A kind of pre-action jury
tampering?” Patrick asked.
    “ Sure,” Alex said. “After
seeing the movies, who would convict Jason Bourne of
anything?”
    “ Or are they just movies?”
MJ asked.
    “ I don’t like
coincidences,” Patrick said.
    “ Right, but maybe the
movies gave him the idea,” Alex said.
    “ We don’t know,” Patrick
said.
    “ Exactly.”
    “ Why use the same kind of
action as last time?” Colin asked.
    “ What do you mean, son?”
Patrick asked.
    “ Last year, we ran around
the world rescuing hostages while he was planting a virus in the
most secure computers in the nation. This action should keep us
super busy and distracted.”
    “ Like last year,” Alex
added.
    “ If we do the work
ourselves, we’ll be running from place to place for at least a
year,” Colin said.
    “ He does know how to keep
us busy,” Patrick said.
    “ What if we missed
something last time?” Colin asked. “What if he’s using the same
kind of action because it hid what he was doing, and we didn’t
catch last time? And, what’s his endgame?”
    “ Do you think you missed
something?” Patrick asked. “In the last year, we’ve been over and
over this stuff.”
    “ Anything’s possible,”
Alex said.
    “ We have a lot of ideas
about what his endgame is,” Patrick said.
    “ But we don’t really
know,” Alex said.
    “ Especially since it now
looks like he orchestrated, through the Boy Scout, the Fey Special
Forces Team chaos the last year we were in service,” Joseph
said.
    Patrick frowned at the
thought.
    “ What about the girls?”
Matthew asked.
    “ What about the girls?”
Patrick asked.
    “ I think our question is
vague,” Alex said. “The current thought is that the CIA trained a
number of children – boys and girls, mostly based in Los Angeles –
to serve as child prostitutes to important men. The interactions
were photographed.”
    “ With the intent of
manipulating those men,” Patrick said. “That’s correct.”
    “ Where are the photos?”
Zack asked. “I know a girl whose dad did that to her, and the
photos and videos are still around. She’s tried to destroy them,
Alex has even tried, but they’re in the world. They keep coming
back to haunt her. If there were photos or videos, where are
they?”
    “ Did they ever use the
photos to control the participants?” Leena asked. “Are any of those
men in office now?”
    “ They’d be too old,”
Patrick said.
    “ There are eleven federal
judges over the age of ninety, sir,” Troy said.
    “ Some of the men would
have been in their twenties or thirties when the program was
active,” Alex said. “And there’s always senior status federal
judges and a few elderly senators and representatives.”
    “ Never thought of it,”
Patrick said.
    “ Anyone come up with
anything else?” Alex asked.
    The team fell
silent.
    “ I guess I have one,”
Sergeant Dusty said.
    “ Go,” Alex
said.
    “ Why us?” Sergeant Dusty
asked. “Sure, we’ve been working on Eniac’s case, but there are
thousands of intelligence teams. The CIA has its own paramilitary
branch now. Why call up Joseph? Wyatt? Why are we involved in this
shit?”
    “ Again,” Joseph said.
“It’s not our mission. Not even close.”
    “ You know how this is
going to end, sir,” Raz said.
    “ How?” Patrick
asked.
    The team stopped working
out to look at Patrick. Used to scrutiny, he didn’t
flinch.
    “ I’m serious,” Patrick
said. “How do you think this will end?”
    “ With me in a box,” Alex
said.
    Unsure of what to say,
Patrick cleared his throat.
    “ If there are no more
questions, I’m sure the General would like to report to his team,”
Alex said.
    “ Yes, sir,” her team
called.
    “ Thank you,” Patrick
said.
    He gave Alex an odd kind
of nod, almost a bow, and left the room. Alex shrugged and went
back to working with Leena.
    F

CHAPTER
FOUR
     
    Friday evening
    November 5 – 6:07