“Your benefit of the doubt was to let me keep it long enough to see who I might contact and what else I might do as you tap into everything you think I have,” Lucy says. “And I thank you for that. It was helpful to me to see what you’re interested in but not so helpful to you. What you really want is usernames and passwords, and getting those hasn’t happened, has it? And guess what? It never will. The NSA, the CIA couldn’t break through my firewalls.”

But someone did.

It appears someone, most likely Carrie, is spoofing Lucy’s cell phone and has gotten into her computer system, her wireless network, and that in turn would compromise her home security system. Everything in Lucy’s world is part of a web too complex for me to comprehend. Her networks have networks, her servers have servers, and her proxies have proxies.

The fact is that no one really knows what she does and just how extensive her range might be, and if someone is hacking into her privacy, even if Carrie is? Then I have to wonder if Lucy has allowed it. She may have invited it. If offered a cyber challenge her reaction is to bring it on. She believes she’ll win.

“We can get into anything we want,” Erin boasts to her. “But if you’re smart you’ll decide to cooperate. You’ll give us whatever we need, including passwords. The more difficult you make this, the worse off you’re going to be.”

“Now I’m really scared.” Lucy’s tone has a dry ice bite and I’m reminded of her in the video sarcastically saying to Carrie, I’m scared.

Lucy wasn’t. Not the way anybody else would be.

“You always were too sure of yourself.” Erin bars the doorway with her arm, and I’m deciding what she’s doing right now is for my benefit.

It’s amazing. She’s showing off. I would smile if anything right now were funny.

“It’s what got you into trouble the first time,” Erin says to Lucy.

“The first time?” Lucy watches the helicopter circle her property again. “Let me try to figure out when that was. Let’s see. When did I get in trouble the first time? I was probably two or three or maybe hadn’t been born yet.”

“I can see you’re determined to make this as difficult as possible.”