After the call ended, C sat thinking about the cryptic message the president had given him.
Without saying the words, he had as much as told him they had a traitor in their midst. It didn’t take a genius to figure out who he meant.
Fields was a CIA agent, so it was obviously her he was talking about. Pryde was focused on the mission so chances were that he wouldn’t even consider looking at her for anything duplicitous, and therefore he was easy prey to be fooled by her. If she was working some angle to get into his head to see if she could grab the glory for herself and the CIA, he probably wouldn’t see it coming.
What made him the best agent he’d ever had working for him, in this case, also made him the most vulnerable.
He had to get out in front of this;, and he definitely couldn’t
