Presumed Dead by Matt Lincoln

Author:Matt Lincoln [Lincoln, Matt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-07-09T23:00:00+00:00

15

HOLM

The morning after their encounter with Hariska, Robbie met up with Marston, Rivers, and Price in Diane’s office. She’d eventually arrived at the office the night before, but after helping out with getting Dollar Store into the assistance program, she’d decided not to touch anything. They had no way of knowing what Hariska had seen or done on Diane’s computer, and Diane decided to defer to the judgment of the two Cyber Crimes agents. If anyone could figure out what she’d done, it was them.

“You sure you don’t need to dust for prints or anything before we get started?” Rivers turned to look at Diane. He and Price were getting all their stuff set up to analyze the computer. They’d laid out a bunch of little usb drives, as well as a bunch of little boxes all covered with wires and cables that Robbie couldn’t even guess the purpose of.

“Why?” Diane grumbled, her arms crossed as she watched the two agents take over her desk. “We know who did this. Ethan and Robbie saw her clear as day. And the other two guys who were with her are dead.”

“Yeah, and they left a gnarly blood stain right outside your office door,” Price remarked, her nose scrunching up as she described what everyone else had walked into that morning. Only Marston, Robbie, and Diane had been aware. Diane had briefed everyone as they’d arrived, but for a few seconds, everyone had been startled by the mess left in the office.

“I’ll have to call someone to come and do a professional clean,” Diane grumbled. “On top of getting a couple of new desks.”

“Why do you have so many?” Price asked as she plugged several things into Diane’s laptop. “Desks, I mean. There aren’t that many field agents.”

“We had more before Hariska pulled that stunt and scared them all off,” Diane grumbled, her face falling into a discontented frown.

“Eh, better that they left now, if you think about it,” Robbie murmured thoughtfully. “That was the first stressful situation a lot of them faced since joining, and they immediately ran for the hills?”

“Well, I think stressful is putting it mildly,” Rivers noted, and Robbie smiled sheepishly at him. Of course Rivers, of all people, would say that. He’d been gravely injured during Hariska’s little coup. “You’re not wrong, though. It could have been any one of the perps we’ve gone up against, if not Hariska. It’s better that they buckled now, and not later when they’re off on a mission in some foreign country.”

“Okay, I’m going to do a basic scan now,” Price declared as she pressed something before spinning around to face us, swiveling from side to side in Diane’s chair.

“And what will that do?” Diane asked curiously.

“Well, the scan is to find anything glaringly wrong,” Rivers explained. “Any kind of malware, keyloggers or phishing software, that kind of thing.”

“We’re looking for viruses,” Price elaborated. “Remember how we talked about making a virus that would let me remotely control the perp’s phone?”

“No,” Diane replied, shooting Price a bewildered look.

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