“What about the cage?”
“Same thing. Can’t tell yet if anything’s gone.”
“The hard drive?”
“I took it home last night.”
“Good. Did anybody check the cameras?”
“You had them turned off, remember?”
I had been worried about Tidalwaiv hijacking the feed.
“It was them,” I said.
“Who?” Lorna asked.
“Tidalwaiv. Had to be.”
“Why? Everything we have came from them in discovery.”
“Not the stuff we got from Naomi.”
We had dispensed with use of the code name Challenger, since Naomi Kitchens had been revealed and approved as a witness.
“But isn’t all of that copies of stuff she sent to them?” Lorna said. “So they would already have that.”
“Not if they purged it,” I said.
I nodded toward the two officers talking to Cisco. One was writing on a clipboard.
“Are they calling in the detectives?” I asked.
“They said they’ll give the report to the burglary squad for follow-up on Monday,” Lorna said. “From Central Division.”
“I won’t hold my breath. This is like the Grant High break-in. Nothing missing, but they were here and they want us to know it. Do I need to talk to them or are you two handling it?”
“We can handle it. I think they’re about to go.”
“Then I’ll be in my office. After they leave, I need you and Cisco in there for the meeting.”
“Okay. They said don’t touch the safe in case the detectives want to send a tech to look for fingerprints.”
“Did you tell them it has no locking mechanism and we don’t keep valuable stuff in it?”
“Yes, but they said the burglars might not have known that.”
I walked by the cops and Cisco to the office. The first thing I did when I got there was plug my dead phone into the charging line on my desk. Then I leaned in through the open door of the Mosler. The contracts McEvoy had signed as well as a few other case files seemed to be untouched. I sat down at the desk, picked up the landline, and called Jack McEvoy, who was up in Palo Alto. I put the call on speaker.
“Our meeting is going to be slightly delayed,” I said. “The cops are here. Somebody broke into the warehouse last night.”
“Shit, what did they get?” McEvoy asked.
“We still don’t know. Maybe nothing. Have you talked to Naomi yet?”
“Uh, no, not since last night. I was going to go over after our all-hands call.”
“Go over now. Make sure everything’s okay and call me back.”
