she didn’t know then what she knew now. and that was the whole problem. she hadn’t known then just how bad it really was.

something strange had been noticed, an anomaly. how long it had been there was anyone’s guess. the infiltration was deeply entrenched, yet it had not been noticed for at least a year. the communications, the mundane day to day activities (or so it seemed to the employees, just ordinary people going to work every day) had been recorded and sent back out to some unknown someone somewhere somehow. whether anything of any use to an outsider was leaked was not known. but simply the fact that the agency had been placed in such a situation so easily was not comforting.

tracing back what had actually taken place was an art, an art that relied on provable science. that so much incompetence surrounded the past events could prove to make the task impossible. but still one had to try. if not for the goal at hand, then to solve the riddle of what would motivate a human being to do such a thing.