As Watkins relayed the orders to her team, Stone checked the tracking app, then looked back at the camera feeds. “Where’s the guy with the briefcase?”
“Coming up the stairs to the street,” Dino said.
“And the woman?”
Dino pointed at a different feed. “Still in the station. Looks like she’s heading to a different platform.”
“I’d say our man with the briefcase is going to be in for quite the surprise when he opens it,” Stone said. “Because the bug is still with her.”
“Now we know what took her so long in the restroom,” Jack said.
Stone looked outside and saw that they were approaching the Eighth Avenue entrance to Columbus Circle.
“Alicia, go around the circle until we know more,” Stone said.
“Yes, sir.”
“Are you recording the video?” Dino asked Watkins.
“We are.”
“Can you play back the part where the briefcase changed hands?”
“A moment.”
She tapped the screen then scrolled through one of the feeds and hitPlay.
Just as the man started to pull the briefcase from the woman’s hand, Dino said, “Freeze it there.”
Watkins did so.
Dino looked through his phone, then showed a photo to Stone and Jack.
“That’s the same guy,” Stone said.
The picture on Dino’s screen was a younger version of the man who now had the briefcase.
“Who is it?” Jack asked.
“That is Ricky Gennaro,” Dino said. “Member of Eduardo Buono’s JFK heist team, and the first one to squeal on him.”
“I remember the name,” Jack said. “Eduardo had particularly unkind things to say about him.”
“I bet he did,” Stone said.
“He’s also why the woman looked so familiar to me,” Dino said. “I saw her picture when I was looking through his file.”
“His wife?” Stone asked.
“His sister, Rosa.”
“I think this might be an example of blood not being thicker than water,” Stone said. “Do you know who the other guy is?”
Dino studied the screen, his lips tight in concentration, then his head cocked slightly. “I don’t know who he is, but he does fit Fred’s description of one of the guys who jumped you in Chelsea.”
“Is that so?” Stone said, looking at the man with renewed interest.
“Got it,” Watkins said into her comm, then turned to the others. “Rosa’s on the downtown platform and appears to be waiting for either the A or D train. I’m told an A train is arriving in four minutes.”
