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The special agents, under Gary's guidance, worked all morning drawing up a list of questions which would form the basis of the hypnotherapy session. Louisa left for the airport in the early afternoon to meet the hypnotherapist and his assistant who had been flown up by private jet.
The hypnotherapist was a friend of Gary's from the detective's years in the LAPD. He had appeared as an expert witness in many trials and Gary had been impressed by the man's ability to cut through layers of confusion in some of their most baffling and complex cases. His name was Roberto Valencia. As Roberto frequently said it was not necessarily the witnesses' powers of observation that were at fault, using a traffic accident as a simple example, but their ability to recall the event. "We see more than we
