Elena's team spent the following month conducting what she privately called the "impossible review," cross-referencing every individual who'd touched their investigations since Sloane's original capture over a decade earlier.
"This list is staggering," Priya said, displaying the compiled names across the command center's main screen. "Hundreds of people. Witnesses, cooperating informants, consultants, security personnel, even journalists who covered the tribunals."
"We need to narrow this somehow," Agent Reyes said. "Grier mentioned technical sophistication combined with intimate knowledge of ongoing operations. That eliminates most peripheral contacts."
Elena studied the list carefully, exhaustion mixing with focused determination. "Someone with genuine scientific background, someone w
