“We’ve got to ditch that kid, whoever she is. Once we get to the airport, she’s out. I told my board I came here to make a business deal, but there’s a whole lot more I’ve been wanting to talk to you about. We shouldn’t be too far, right?” Quincy held up his phone to look at the map on the screen. “Yeah, yeah. Left here—whoa, son. Can’t off-road in a Porsche. Ok, then we take this to that crappy frontage road. Then interstate, then airport—”

“Call 911,” William ordered.

“Listen, think about that—”

“A woman was shot and killed back there, and we saw them drag her body into the fields. Call the police.”

“Hey. Don’t you get it? We need to get out of here. They will cover this up. They’ll come up with some kind of story that you shot up your own Jeep, and given my personal history, they’ll drag me into it, and how we staged it all for publicity. We’ll be discredited, just like your grandma was.…”

William’s temples pounded. If my family is waiting outside the trailer, I can’t risk them being anywhere near this. So follow me all you want, you bastards. I’ll drop off this girl and this crackpot somewhere safe, and you can chase me to the ends of the earth. But stay away from my family.

He looked over his shoulder and, as if right on cue, saw a helicopter in the distance do a complete 180 and head in their direction. As it flew over the center of the field, another quickly rose from the cotton to hover and turn towards them as well.

“Don’t sweat that,” Quincy said. “It’s not like this is an LA car chase. I doubt those TV helicopters are broadcasting this live.”

William looked back and forth from the road to the black helicopters, vacant of any of the bright call letters he’d seen on media vehicles his entire life.

“I don’t think those are from television.”

“Aw, man, you’re right!” Quincy whipped out his phone, shifting his weight to extend his arm over Lily to the back window. “I’ve paid more money than I care to admit to try to prove they exist. And it’s happening right now! Smile boys!”

“Use the phone to call police, not to record video!”

“Screw that man. I came to make a deal. I never expected to get to see proof of the freakin’ Men in Black! But there they are! It’s still so dark everyone on the ground will think they’re just cops.”

They aren’t cops. Cops don’t kill federal agents. Cops don’t drag bodies into fields.