Even TABITHA could feel the tension between Zane and Douglas as she traveled down the road to SARAH. "Douglas is there something wrong? Perhaps you would like a massage. You seem tense."
"No thank you TABITHA. I'll be fine." Silence resumed.
"I think I can find her." Zane said looking at Fargo.
"Well it had better be fast before Mansfield notices she's missing." Fargo put the car in park outside SARAH.
Walking down the stairs Fargo and Zane entered the bunker.
"Good morning Dr. Fargo, good morning Dr. Donovan* Can I get you anything?"
"Nothing for me thanks SARAH." Zane smiled at least someone was polite to him.
Fargo simply shrugged and went to sit at the dinning room table where Carter, Allison , Grace and Henry sat.
Zane scanned the area around Carter for anything the Sheriff could throw at him and then sat as far away from him as possible. Just hoping to avoid another screaming match.
"SARAH recorders off, please." Carter said to the house. "Zoe is at the lake with Pilar so we don't have to worry about being overheard."
There was a very pregnant pause before anyone spoke. No one really sure where they should go from here, what the next step should be.
Fargo broke the silence. "I can buy us a couple of days to find her. Say she called and said she had a family emergency. Her notes were hand written so the only ones who know she left are in this room."
"Ok but where do we start looking for her?" Grace asked. "Does anyone know what name she took for her alias?"
"Jo handled all the alias' herself." Fargo sighed.
"But it even if we find her we are still vulnerable. It took Zane only a few hours to figure it out." Allison pointed out.
"Oh I took care of the records on the DOD mainframe and the computer records at GD. We just need to get rid of the physical records." Zane cut in.
"What do you mean took care of them?" Henry asked.
Zane smirked. "I tweaked them, changed the descriptions of the spies just enough that no one would connect them to you guys. But we still need to 'lose' the originals."
"Ok but we still have to find her." Fargo added.
"Oh we can find her." Zane said. "I am an excellent hacker and we have our very own US Marshall. Between the 2 of us we can find her."
Turning to Carter, Zane took a deep breath to prepare himself for what he was about to say. He hated apologizing even if he was in the wrong. "Look Sheriff, I'm sorry that I pushed but what would you have done in my situation? If I knew that by asking that Jo would have caused her to run I would have approached this differently. Let's work together and get her back."
Carter grunted and sighed, he knew that Zane wasn't completely to blame for all of this. "Fine, what do we need to do first?"
Zane let go of the breath he was holding. "I need a secure internet connection. We need to hack the TSA security cameras at the Portland airport."
"I can help with that Zane." SARAH spoke up. I bank of computers came down from the ceiling.
Zane stalked over to one of the terminals and started quickly typing commands into the computer.
"Great now my house is committing felonies." Carter mumbled under his breath. Everyone chose to ignore him.
Minutes ticked by, finally Zane smiled. "I'm in. Now I need to run a facial recognition program against the security feeds around the time we know Jo was at the airport. SARAH can you upload a photo of her into the program I'm bringing up?"
"Of course, I am calculating the time needed to run the program." SARAH paused as she completed her calculations. "I believe we shall have results in less then 30 minutes."
Zane continued to pound on the keys, bouncing them off servers all over the world to throw anyone looking off the trail as the minutes ticked by.
Finally SARAH broke the silence. "I found her and I know which flight she was on."
"Which one?" Fargo asked anxiously.
"American Airlines direct flight to Dallas. But her name is not on the flight manifest."
"Great so she is already using her alias." Allison sighed.
"No this is a good thing." Carter cut in. "We know which flight that she's on and we have the list of who's on it now we can find out what name she's using. When doe the flight land?" Carter asked pulling out his phone.
Zane checked the log "in about 45 minutes."
"Great I have a friend in the Dallas office who owes me a big favor. He can meet the plane and follow her. I need the flight number and gate info."
Henry spoke up as Jack talked to his friend. "Now we just need someone to go and convincer her to come back."
"The next flight for Dallas leaves in 2 hours. No one will make it in time." SARAH added.
"Not unless they take the GD chopper." Fargo added.
"I'll go" Zane volunteered. Carter having just come back in the room made to protest.
"No way, I'll go."
Zane shook his head. "If she won't come back then you need to be here so you can take Allison and the kids and get away. It makes sense for me to go."
Carter nodded and Fargo grabbed Zane by the arm pulling him towards the door.
"We need to go now." Fargo said almost frantic.
"I need to stop by my place first though." Zane added. "For supplies."
"Whatever but you need to make it quick."
Less then 2 hours later Zane was sitting on a plane to Dallas. He had stopped by his place to pick up his laptop and a fake id for himself. Settling into his seat he started to work on the plan to bring Jo home.
*I'm so confused by whether Zane has his PhD or not. He is referred to as both Mr. and Dr. Donovan and in E=MC? Allison asks if his dissertation was on the big bang and he replies yeah the first one. I believe he has one but is not hung up on titles.
