“Maybe so Morales could start something with you?”

“Finish me and start me. He’d get off on that,” Berger said.

“Then Greg is how Morales would have gotten the idea for the Irish whiskey and Scotch he wrote about in that phony interview he sent to Terri, when he was pretending to be my aunt,” Lucy said. “And Greg shouldn’t have let himself be talked into anything. Fuck that. He made his choice. And Morales won’t be finishing or starting anything, except he’s going to finish himself. You watch.”

“If you check the bottles downstairs,” Berger said, “my guess, he and Greg put a hefty dent in both of them. Morales would want the most expensive thing in the bar. That’s him, all right. And it was a nasty dig to imply Kay routinely drinks whiskey that costs five, six, seven hundred dollars a bottle and say it was more than Terri’s schoolbooks. He was painting quite the portrait of her, and if she’d finished her thesis, her so-called book? That would have been extremely unfortunate. I’m sure it’s occurred to you he might be Gotham Gotcha. Seems that sort of thing would be right up his alley.”

“The IP of whoever writes those columns is anonymized, and the Internet service provider has an account that traces to an LLC with an address in the Isle of Man,” Lucy said. “Which has one of the strongest offshore trust jurisdictions in the world. The machine access code doesn’t match anything I’ve seen so far, so those columns aren’t written on any laptop or any other device we’re familiar with, nor is it one used to send any e-mails we’ve been looking at. Problem is, jurisdictions like the Isle of Man, Nevis, Belize offer such stringent privacy protection, it’s very difficult to penetrate the shield and find out who’s behind an LLC. I’ve got a contact at the IRS pulling some strings for me. Interesting it’s the UK. I would have expected the Caymans. As in about seventy-five percent of all hedge funds registered. But I don’t think Morales is Gotham Gotcha.”

“The implication, of course, is whoever it is, this person has a lot of money parked offshore,” Berger said.