“She could do that easily and she also knows people in the intelligence community. Now it’s making sense why DoD showed up at your house pretending to be the tax collector,” Janet says and I envision the dark man in the cheap suit who claimed to be a revenue officer for the IRS.

“Carrie reenters the U.S. finally and makes sure she’s going to drop a bombshell,” Lucy says. “She hacks into databases and creates political pandemonium.”

We don’t get badges, guns, nothing fun like that, said the man who introduced himself as Doug Wade.

He lied to Jill Donoghue and me. Everyone is lying.

“Carrie finds a way to ensure that frag recovered from the assassination is a match with a machine gun that was once in the custody of the FBI,” Lucy says. “You realize how long she’s been sitting on this?”

“And that’s classic,” Janet says.

“It’s what she does. She gathers things as they happen and holds on to them for as long as it takes. Then she launches her next attack.”

“The timing’s not an accident.” Janet stares at Lucy and avoids looking anywhere else.

“Of course it’s not an accident.”

“Suddenly there’s a match between the MP5K and bullet frag. Suddenly Erin Loria transfers to Boston and is chasing you to the gates of hell.”

“Which is what Carrie always threatened. She said when I reach the gates of hell don’t let them slam me in the ass on my way in,” Lucy says and I hope I’m misunderstanding what she and Janet are implying.

They seem to be suggesting that the missing MP5K may have found its way to Pakistan by late December of 2007. The gun could link the United States to the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

ULTIMATELY SCOTLAND YARD got involved in the case. I remember it was determined that Bhutto died from blunt force trauma caused by a terrorist attack on her vehicle.

Bullet fragments would have been analyzed. They would have been compared with any weapons recovered, and maybe one of them was an unusual machine gun once in the FBI’s possession. Benton had it. Then Erin Loria did, even if only briefly. It would be like Carrie Grethen to make sure the gun creates havoc, especially if the biggest loser is the American government, specifically the Department of Justice.