THE INVESTIGATION continued for nearly an hour.
The original access point could not be traced to a physical location. The system showed an internal access signature, but the originating source had been masked.
Sophie studied the data from a separate workstation while Matthew remained nearby. He had barely spoken since the breach. She knew him well enough now to recognize the silence.
He was thinking.
And when Matthew thought too much, he usually imagined the worst possible outcome and then became angry at the universe for confirming it.
“What are you looking at?” he asked.
Sophie didn't look away from the screen. “The access request.”
“Anything?”
“Maybe.”
She enlarged the code.
At first, it appeared to be a series of corrupted commands. But after several minutes, she noticed a re
