Johanna winked.
“You just scored bonus points,” she joked. “Actually, I’m forty,” she stated, “and so is the ball and chain. I tend to work the undercover aspect of our jobs. Got a serial killer? Need a decoywho is a young, clueless woman to lure them in? I’m your girl,” Johanna admitted.
Brody didn’t miss a beat.
“Yeah, and I’m aging because of it. We used to look the same age. See how that’s going for me,” he joked.
Oh, Dex knew about shit like that. When he’d been protecting Max, he felt himself aging each day.
Kate shared what she knew the cop was thinking.
“The FBI never allowed couples to work together, but then along the way, Elizabeth made that a possibility, especially in her division. Now, the FBI is a little more lax, as long as they stay safe, and get the job done.”
Yeah, Dex was aware. Elizabeth worked with her menagerie of husbands, and they were damn good as a team, too.
He pointed at the phone.
“How are you going to extract information from the phone?” Dex asked. “Don’t you need to get a warrant to the phone company for all of the records?”
They all laughed.
“What’s funny?”
That was an easy one.
“The only reason we get a warrant is to make the phone companies help. They don’t like to unless forced. Since the owner is deceased, we don’t need permission. We will just do it ourselves since this is evidence.”
That still didn’t answer his question. How would they get into the phone? It had a passcode on it, and that was why the phone company was needed, along with the warrant.
“But how can you extract information without opening it? Is that a thing?” he asked.
Brody picked up a cord and plugged it into a tablet that was sitting on his desk.
Oh, well, they had their ways. Mostly, they had one way, and it was their AI assistant.
Well, Elizabeth’s assistant.
“MATE will get us in,” he admitted. “Have you met her?”
The man nodded.
“Yeah, she freaks me out when she pops in and scares the shit out of me.”
Well, in that case, they’d just use the tech and not use the antics that went along with her.
He turned off hologram mode for the man.
As he finished plugging in, and typing something into the screen, Dex watched.
“MATE, extract any phone numbers that might be connected to the general area where Elizabeth is. Go out about one hundred miles and pull up a list for the boss. Send it directly to her phone,” Brody said.
The man looked surprised.
“How long does it take?” he asked.
There was a very familiar chortling from MATE, who was not only working, but listening.
“It only takes me a few minutes,” she stated.
