13. Boston brakes

"Do you think the FBI knows we're here? Knows we're meeting regularly? Observes us?"

"If they do, I bet they're bored doing so, we're not doing anything exciting at all." Sofia said. "We don't even wave into a camera because we have no idea where the camera is. And why would they be interested in observing us? Do you have anything to hide, Sara?"

"A lot, not the FBI should be interested in."

"Big Brother is watching us. And takes control over our cars."

"Yeah, Nick told me about his joyride with the lawyer. It must have been terrifying when the car sped and they couldn't control anything. Imagine, you're sitting in your car and suddenly it takes control over everything."

"Not the car took control over everything, another person did. What was his name? Suvari?"

"Yes. I mean we use the fact that the GPS records where you are and were and the car companies know like every mile you drove, the total observation is already happening, it's not a science fiction story, it's real."

"Cars record where you are, cell phones do too. The GPS of your cell phones tells everybody with the right program, where you are. Sometimes you tell everybody yourself by sending messages, posting pictures. There is no privacy anymore. On our way to here, we have past dozens of CCTV cameras, if your colleagues want, they can track you down by the second you left the lab. It's Big Brother every day. Or Truman show, call it however you want, it's there, it's real and not made up."

"And yet every day hundreds of crimes happen, some of them without witnesses."

"Because there are not cameras everywhere, which is bad for solving crimes and good for living a normal life. I don't want to be on camera 24/7."

"Me neither." Being under permanent surveillance was a reason why Sara liked being outdoors, somewhere away from the city, away from people. Where she could be just herself without anybody watching her.

"This guy, Lansdale, you couldn't arrest him, right?"

"No, we didn't have enough evidence."

"He killed four people to cover up his mistress and son, who he killed too."

"He has a career, a family, the mistress could have made him lose everything. A man like Lansdale needs power, he does everything to keep his power."

"What a sick man, he killed his own son."

"Power is more important than family for some people."

"Apparently. He knows how to cover his traces, has people doing it for him. With his rank and influence, it will be hard to get him, make him fall."

"Not a reason not to try it."

"True. What about Finn and this reporter? What's going on between them?"

"You're asking me? I have no idea and I don't really care. Maybe they were more than friendly a couple of months ago, maybe there was nothing. It's not my place to judge or tell. She gave him a place to hide, when he was announced dead and got in trouble for it."

"The FBI arrested her for it."

"They put more effort into arresting her and DB than in finding out, who hacked the computer in the morgue. Merchiston's dental record was put there by himself, or a friend of his, the faked tox report wasn't. We still have no idea, who put it there."

"The FBI and they won't tell you who exactly and how they got it there."

"No, they demands answers, but never answer questions themselves." Sara grumbled. This was not only unfair, it was highly frustrating.