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Michael approached, looked at Elena, then said to Matt, “Not many prints, likely the ones here aren’t the suspects’. Don’t know if they found anything. Documents in the desk show a Harley-Davidson motorcycle registered to Colton Fox. It’s not in the garage—the lock was broken.”
“Kara took it. I heard it, but didn’t see her.” He turned back to Elena. “I need to talk to Fox now. Not tonight, not tomorrow, but as soon as you can bring him in.”
Quietly, she said, “I don’t want to break his cover, not now.”
“Don’t you think that people are going to know he’s alive by now?”
“No. Even if they suspected, they’d never know where to look for him.”
“I don’t want to pull seniority, but I need to know everything you know, everything Dyson suspected, and I need the fucking evidence Violet Halliday gave to your detective.”
She looked at her watch longer than necessary, then said, “Okay. Three hours. I’ll try to find him.”
“Where?”
“First Contact office.”
Matt motioned for Michael and they left.
Elena waited until the feds were gone, then she called Will Lattimer. “Bring Colton in, 8 a.m., your office.”
“What happened?”
“Clusterfuck. Just do it, and if he balks, tell him Code Three.” Cover may have been blown, mandatory debrief, don’t come into the station.
Colton Fox played by his own rules, but so far, he had never ignored a direct order.
Then she called Lex. “Kara knows everything.”
Matt and Michael went to the hotel and Matt took a shower. It was only five minutes, but when he got out he had four missed calls and a text from Tony to call him immediately.
Still dripping, Matt called his boss first. “What?”
“Bryce Thornton was found dead,” Tony said bluntly. “Shot in his vehicle. LA FBI put a BOLO out on Quinn.”
“What the hell happened?”
“Thornton drove to a dog park in South Pasadena. A cell phone was found a hundred yards from his body, smashed, but Kara’s prints were on it.”
“Which proves nothing.”
“They know she’s driving the motorcycle that’s registered to her allegedly dead partner Colton Fox. A text came in from an unknown number to Thornton to meet at 4 a.m. at the park for proof that Kara orchestrated the hit on David Chen. The text claims that her personal gun was used to kill Chen. Thornton contacted his boss Chavez, and she told him to wait for backup. He didn’t. Their theory is that Kara killed him because she believes he outed her and Fox, getting her partner killed.”
“That’s all bullshit,” Matt said.
“I know,” Tony concurred, but Matt barely heard him.
“Not least of which she has known since late last night that Fox is alive and well,” Matt said. “I was with her until two this morning. She called me at two thirty and said she was destroying her phone because Violet Halliday believed someone had tracked her on it. She’s taking Halliday to a safe location, and she was nowhere near South Pasadena at four.”
“You don’t know that for a fact.”
“I know that Kara would never ambush anyone, even that bastard Thornton. You can’t possibly believe she’s guilty.”
“I don’t. But Kara has to come in for questioning.”
“How was he killed?”
“Shot point-blank from the passenger seat while he was sitting in his car. It appears that he met someone there, they got into his vehicle, shot him, got out. No prints on the door. No witnesses. There are some security cameras in the area, but none in the lot. The FBI is going through them, and Sloane is going to verify everything they find.”
