FiveMichael checks and rechecks his watch, impatient to leave. For several hours, Michael, Dr. Celia Stone and the pilot of flight 1632 have been detained in the office of the New Orleans District Attorney Madison Bouvier. All the passengers of the flight had been herded into special rooms at the airport to be questioned, except for these three key witnesses.
Bouvier, an urbane thirty-something, is mysterious at times, with an impenetrable veneer. Yet, as he conducts this interrogation, he is incisive, even wry, in his approach. To Michael, Bouvier is an enigma, adept yet amused in some twisted way.
“I'm curious, to say the least, why you didn't turn this flight right around back to San Francisco, Captain,” Bouvier probes, in a drawl that is airy on the surface with a menacing undertone.
