Birkhoff:
Found something!
[Alex and Michael come close]
Michael:
Nikita has Amanda tied up at the moment.
Birkhoff:
She hasn't killed her?
Michael:
She's questioning her on something.
Birkhoff:
Oh. Anyway, it seems that a Serena Ryan went missing during that fire. She was 17 at the time. Apparently, they first thought she perished in the flames. Until they couldn't find her body. There was a missing persons report filed after that on her. Nothing more.
Michael:
What do the files have on her prior to that?
Birkhoff:
Adopted when she was a week old by Declan and Maggie Ryan. They died in a car crash when she was 6. From there she was placed in the foster care system. Records show her as a bright, curious girl. Sweet natured. Always on the lookout for her birth family.
Michael:
That sounds like our Rowena. What photos did the home have for her?
Birkhoff:
Just two. One at 6 when she entered foster care and the other one was taken before she went missing.
Alex:
Pull those up side by side.
[ They all look at the photos]
Michael:
That's not the same girl.
Alex:
Rowena Ivy started that fire right?
Birkhoff:
Yeah.
Alex:
What if that was to run. And she left Serena Ryan in there to die. Switching the photos in the process. In case the files survived the fire. I take it a Division agent went into the flames to take both her and her file correct.
Birkhoff:
Actually, they only got the file. Rowena or Serena or whoever WE know, managed to crawl out of the building, she collapsed in front of a fireman.
Michael:
Percy and I were the acting EMTs that took her to the hospital. Where she "died" on the way.
Birkhoff:
You know, it's a bit odd. We have two girls with no State ID anywhere in those files. And only three photos between them.
Michael:
Can you do facial recognition between the photo of the kid and the image pulled up of Rowena?
Birkhoff:
Sure can, just give me a moment.
[later]
Birkhoff:
It's a 90% match.
Michael:
And the teen's photo?
Birkhoff:
Only 10%.
Alex:
Division got the wrong girl.
Birkhoff:
Sure did.
Alex:
Do you think Amanda knew?
Michael:
Maybe. But I couldn't see her enjoying that news. If anything she would have canceled this girl right then and there to keep Division's image clean. I mean unless...
Alex:
Amanda knew this girl before.
Michael:
It's possible.
Birkhoff:
That makes it worse.
Alex:
What?
Birkhoff:
The thought that Amanda actually truly cares for someone. Even then. Because if it's true then that means Amanda actually has a heart. She's not totally evil. Which I just don't see. Nor do I want to.
Michael:
Keep digging into both pasts. See if they cross paths anywhere else. Before recruitment and after she left division.