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Grey shook his head. “She wasn’t Hannigan’s inside person.” He put his hand over his mouth. “Whoops!”
“Who was she working for?”
“Your dear friendTommyfigured it out. I’m sure you will, too.”
“Was it someone we mentioned?”
“Yes.”
“BioRise?”
He sighed, didn’t answer the question. “Honestly, if you don’t figure it out soon, you’ll be joining your friend in the morgue.”
“Is that a threat?” Regan said.
“Not a threat. Just a fact. Your fifteen minutes are more than up. I’m ready to go back to the rec room now.”
Regan paced the conference room once they shut down the video chat. “I don’t know where to start with all that.”
“He’s bored. He’s playing games.”
“So you don’t believe him?”
“I didn’t say that.”
“Then what?”
“Tommy went into his meeting with Peter Grey with some different information than we have, but we have more—we got more information because we had more questions to ask. I think we’re almost there,” Charlie said. “Tommy went back to the Potomac Bank robbery because of the Hannigan brothers. Two brothers, no criminal records, each committing a violent act seemingly out of the blue.”
She stopped pacing. “Do you think they were blackmailed into committing these crimes?”
“Blackmailed or needed the money, I don’t know. But both were outliers.”
“Becca Johns—she wasn’t his accomplice? Tommy thought she was, at least that’s what I got from his notes. Maybe I misunderstood.”
“I don’t know that I completely trust him with that information,” Charlie said cautiously.
“If we believe anything he said, we should at least take everything he said as a possibility until we can disprove it. Tommy was interested in Becca Johns. Maybe not because she was Michael Hannigan’s accomplice, but because she was working for someone else.”
“For what? To steal from the boxes before he got there?”
“What if...what if Hanniganwasworking with Becca, but she was playing sort of a double agent?” Regan prompted. “If she alerted someone that the heist was imminent.”
“That would suggest that one or more of the five box owners had something to hide. They would have removed the information prior to the robbery.”
“Maybe Hannigan figured out Becca double-crossed him and killed her. Jenna Johns hasn’t called me back. I want to drive up there today, but first I’m going to talk to Franklin Archer.”
“Are you sure that’s wise?”
“Very sure. I’m not going to tip our hand—but I need to feel him out. And in light of Grant gone missing, now’s the perfect time.”
“Then let me track down Jenna Johns,” Charlie said. “I suspect she’ll be able to fill in some of our holes.”
Thirty-Five
Regan had known Franklin Archer almost as long as she’d known Grant. While she couldn’t think of a viable motive for Grant’s longtime friend and colleague to be behind any of this, she couldn’t discount what Peter Grey had said. That, coupled with the empty file with his name on it and Grant’s fear that his office was bugged, suggested that Franklin Archer was involved in something nefarious.
She would need to tread carefully, she knew. No overt questions. Perhaps just express concern over Grant. It was no secret she’d found Madeline’s body last night. It would be natural for her to talk to Franklin.
