Jenna's phone rang at eleven-forty.
She looked at the screen and something changed in her face and she stood up from the table and walked to the far end of the room and answered it. The conversation lasted four minutes. Everyone at the table heard her side of it, which was mostly silence broken by short questions. Yes. When. How many. Are they confirmed.
She came back to the table and stood at her chair without sitting down.
"Mitchell's suspension has been reversed," she said.
Nobody spoke.
"Forty minutes ago. A federal judge issued an emergency stay on the investigative proceedings. Mitchell's legal team moved fast, faster than anyone anticipated, and they found a judge who signed off on a temporary halt pending a jurisdictional review." She looked at Francis. "He's back in operation
