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opened the door for her and she climbed in. Instead of the plush carpeting and upholstered seats the
exterior led one to expect, the interior was metal and utilitarian with racks of electronics, monitors,
and cable.

A man wearing a tee-shirt and shorts sat in a pivoting vinyl seat. Anders directed her to a
backwards-facing bench seat behind the driver's station, and perched beside her, shutting the door
behind them. It was warm in the van, despite the late winter temperatures outside, and Millie shrugged
off her coat.

Anders gestured at the other man. "This is Watson. That's his first name."

Watson smiled. "I'm named after three famous sidekicks."

Millie thought about it a second, then said, "Sherlock Holmes's Watson. Uh, and Watson and
Crick? Who's the third?"

Watson grinned. "The most appropriate one—Alexander Graham Bell's assistant, at the other
end of listening device. 'Watson, come here, I need you.' "

Anders waved his hand impatiently. "Give us Ms. Harrison-Rice's bug on speaker."

Watson pushed a slider bar up and there was a slight hum. When Anders said, "It can pick up
those around you, too," his voice echoed out of the speaker. "But, you can turn it off." He held out his
hand.

Millie took the tracker out of her pocket and handed it to him.

"It comes apart like this." He put pressure on the two faces and slid them in opposite directions.
The face popped off and he indicated a slide switch with a zero at one end and a two at the other. "At
zero it's all the way off so don't do that. In between, it's just the GPS locator. And all the way to the
right, it's a GPS locator and an audio bug." He slid it to the middle position as he was saying this and
the speaker stopped echoing his voice.

Watson pointed at a computer screen that seemed to be a street map of her neighborhood with
a flashing dot at the appropriate space. "But we're not getting the GPS coordinates right now,
because you're in this ferroconcrete garage and can't get the satellites. That'll change when you walk
outside."

Anders turned the audio bug back on. "Is that satisfactory, Ms. Harrison-Rice?"

"Right. When I'm with clients, the mike is going off. Otherwise, it'll be on and I'll just have to
watch what I say."




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