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Bill had made good on his promise to fix the door. Which meant Alice could transfer her laptop back into the room from the trunk of the Explorer. She opened it up and clicked on the KCTV News site. A video of Captain Reynolds's speech highlights was already up and ready, beneath a click-bait headline.
Alice watched the video, hoping she might pick up on something she missed. News of the note was hardly a revelation, but it had still left her rattled.
She watched it again. There was nothing she'd missed. The cops had nothing. Neither did she.
Alice stood away from the writing desk and circled the room, feeling powerless. Time running out. She stepped into the en suite and ran a hand over her pill bottles. She found the medication her old psychologist had prescribed before she’d quit
