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The next morning as Talia pulled her car into her assigned parking space at Mossad Headquarters, she rubbed sleep from her eyes. She had tossed and turned the prior night as the stress of day’s events took its toll. She glanced at her makeup in the rearview mirror, grabbed her bag, hopped out of the car and affixed her security badge to a pocket on her dress.
But as she scanned her badge across the steel door, she stop. She took one glance at the elevator door to her right and the sign that read “Fire Evac Only.” The elevator led to one place, the sub-basement level. It had been installed years prior as a means of secondary escape in the event of a fire.
The reasoning at the time suggested that if a person should find themselves in the underground recesses of the records room when a
