Herbert had asked about pod three, where his brother’s cell had been. Neither man could give a ready answer as to what had gone down in that pod. They had not known about the dead man until long after the fact. None of their men had reported seeing anything out of the ordinary and certainly did not know that Robert Herbert might have left the prison in the uniform of an MP decked out in riot gear. In fact, they were astonished at the possibility. Yet when Herbert explained how it could have happened, both men conceded that they could not prove that it hadn’t happened. He examined the area where the staging had been for the response team. It was big, open, and on that stormy night probably totally chaotic. He searched the quarters where Mesic had stayed, but a cleaning team had come in

