“That’s a hard target.”
“It’s the call Eamon made.”
Dane’s voice came through the comm at two-forty. “Coming out. Ferry at three-fifteen. Cabot’s quiet.”
“How quiet.”
“He hasn’t spoken since Eleanor walked us to the front hall. Maria put her hand on his shoulder when he left. He thanked her. Hasn’t said a word since.”
“Get him out. He’ll talk later.”
“Farrow, he has names.”
“How many?”
“Three. Two on the wedding. One on the catering rotation.”
“Read them.”
“Linnea Sorensen. She’s thirty-eight and has twelve years in the household. Daniel Costa. He’s a fifty-four-year-old houseman. He’s at the house every day. The third is Anneliese Voss, who is forty-two. She’s a catering coordinator for the South End event firm. She’ll be at the wedding.”
“Good work.”
“Maria put her hand on Cabot’s shoulder when he left. He says it stayed half a second longer than the other times she’d done it.”
I called Eamon.
“Got the names,” he said before I could speak. “Cabot sent them ninety seconds ago.”
“He works fast.”
“If they delivered the components today, the device gets assembled tomorrow or Monday. I’m betting on components. A finished device probably wouldn’t have come in through a service entrance in daylight.”
“Probably is doing a lot of work in that sentence.”
“It is. Federal will have the names by tonight. They will move on Sorensen and Voss Tuesday at oh-five-hundred. That’s the backstop.”
“What’s the play?”
“The road. Wherever they assemble it, they have to move it. Federal wants the device in transit, not on the property. Once it’s at Katama, taking it out signals the network and gives Maria room to trigger whatever she’s holding in reserve.”
“Tuesday’s late for the operatives.”
“Tuesday’s the earliest I can pull it without spooking Maria. If I move on her people before Tuesday, she’ll change the device location, the trigger window, or the operative roster. I need her holding the line until federal intercepts the device on the road.”
“And if federal misses the road?”
“Then we go to Plan B, grabbing the operatives Tuesday morning and Maria Wednesday morning before the ceremony. Cabot in the room when I tell Eleanor.”
He hung up.
The comm clicked again.
“Farrow, I shot Maria once from across the morning room. She knew I was raising the camera, and she didn’t move. She let the shutter go and turned her head a half-second after I lowered it.”
“That’s a person who isn’t afraid of being seen.”
“She has decided to be visible.”