Though he was physically at his desk, his mind was elsewhere; preoccupied with the events of the past 48 hours. So many questions, so few answers. And those he had brought about even more questions. Was it even safe for him to be here?

It started a couple of days ago with a visit to his local Radio Shack. He’d read about frequency scanning on the internet and thought it might be fun to give it a try. Scanner in hand, he began driving around his neighborhood looking for signals. On a whim, he drove by the Chinese restaurant by his old high school. The one everyone in the neighborhood suspected of being a front for organized crime since there were never any cars in the lot, but it had nonetheless been in business for the past 25 years. To his surprise, he picked up a steady stream of static on a high frequency. What happened next really spooked him. Just as his car passed by the front of the restaurant, two rather large men ran out into the parking lot in what seemed an attempt to get a better look at his car.