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Meanwhile, at the Washington County Courthouse…

Megan, Zach, and Katherine were trying to pick the lock on one of the back doors. They crept into the hallway.

"Zach," Megan whispered. "Where do we go now?"

"I think we go… left," he replied. "Now, as we go, start looking around for any records rooms."

After a minute or so, Megan stopped and looked through a window in a door on her right.

"Come on! Keep up!" Zach told her.

"Wait. I found something interesting."

"The records room?"

"No," she told him. "The cell!"

"What cell?" Katherine asked.

Megan recited from memory, "…I'm not even going to swat that fly. I hope they are watching…" She paused. "…They'll see. They'll see, and they'll know, and they'll say, 'Why, she wouldn't even harm a fly.'"

"Come on!" Zach said again.

A few minutes later, the three finally found the records room. Zach picked the lock.

"OK, start looking everywhere," he said.

They split up and started looking. Megan and Katherine started opening filing cabinets and searching through them. Zach got onto the old computer and started pulling up files once it booted up.

After a long time of searching, Megan and Katherine pulled several folders out of the cabinets. Zach started printing something out.

All of a sudden, they heard someone coming down the hall.

"Zach! I thought you said there'd be nobody here!" Katherine whispered as the three started ducking behind the cabinets.

The footsteps stopped at the door to the records room. A flashlight swept the room twice, then left.

"That was a close call!" Zach whispered. "Let's get what we need and go."