7
Previously
"It was a setup. The whole job." He shook his head, turned back to the screens and started typing furiously. "It was a hit on Parker."
"What do you mean it was a hit?"
"I mean the whole damn thing. Look, I was having trouble reaching Jane Rigsby right? So I did every search, nothing came up, and I got a bad feeling, so I cross checked her picture in the database and that woman ain't Jane Rigsby. She had a damn good cover though, I mean this is high grade work. I never even thought to cross check. It's all my fault, and now Parker might be dying."
"Stop blaming yourself and get to work Hardison, we need as much information as we can get." Elliot snarled, "We don't have time for you to mope." Just as Elliot was about to call Sophie and Nate, Nate's voice came up over the coms.
"Guys, just an update, Parker's out of surgery, still unconscious, but she's still here…" Hardison breathed a sigh of relief but Elliot interrupted Nate.
"Nate, I need you to secure the room, I'll be to the hospital as soon as I can."
"What's going on?" Sophie's voice chimed in.
"It was a setup." Elliot said. "Hardison was rechecking everything and turned over a rock that Jane Rigsby hoped we wouldn't. She's not Jane Rigsby."
"What do you mean not Jane Rigsby?" Nate stood up and closed the blinds to Parker's ICU room and turned his chair so he could see the door better. Hardison let out a sigh.
"Her real name is Jenna King. We never cross checked her picture. But it's who she works for that's the real problem. In the CIA report I'm looking at it says she's an aide to presidential hopeful Derrick Ellsworth."
"Ok, but what does all of that have to do with Parker?" Sophie said.
"Derrick Ellsworth has a dirty little secret. He's done a good job of burying it, but nothing stays hidden from Hardison." The hacker said. "Twenty years ago Derrick Ellsworth was in a car accident."
"So?" Elliot growled.
"So, it wasn't with another car. Ellsworth lost control of his car and accidentally hit a little boy on his bike, and his sister. They were both taken to the hospital, the boy died from injuries sustained almost immediately, and the girl was in critical condition for a day or so, then she was moved to the regular recovery ward, and then her records just stop, it's like she disappeared from the system. And then, get this, a week later their parents, who were watching from the sidewalk when it happened, they were gunned down in a convenience store robbery."
"Sad story but I'm still not seeing the connection Hardison." Elliot said.
"The boy that got hit? The parents that got shot? Their last name was Parker."