I quickly buried that thought as I remembered her behavior. She was obviously out of her element and was seemingly ready to do whatever I said. My pla... had always been to test her and slowly break her down, but she seemed to be giving up much easier than I anticipated. I could most likely skip some steps but in the end decided to go through with the first test and see if she was faking or not. I placed my video camera on my half rolled down window, zoomed it in so the window was framed and. Time and money spent talking to Thomas Riley produced nothing better.Through the late spring and summer, it was very tedious. I had little money coming in and only my own time as a resource. Though the national picture was looking good for the Republican party, I was not their fair-haired girl. Their money went to more promising situations. We made jokes about trying to spin straw into video cable, but only managing an elephant's tail.As a sidelight, we played word games with my opponent's. But Liberty didn’t pursue that – she was thinking about how nice it was having a knee against her lower thigh – a man’s knee! She’d like to take that knee home with her. The taxi stopped and she found why the address sounded so familiar – they were outside the Starlight Cinema that looked abandoned and ready to crumble. ‘Is this hostile torture?’ ‘Isn’t all torture hostile?’ She guessed he had a point. Her question remained unanswered, or so it seemed. ‘There’s a picnic table over here, on the. Phase Two of Retribution now well in hand.Hodge had several housess, and moved between them at irregular intervals, or so Maggie informed me. I reasoned Miriam would now be living with him as she had no other family alive, and as far as I knew no friends, therefore if I followed Miriam when she left work she would probably lead me to Hodge's current lair.The day after my visit to Butcher, Baker, and McCandless I hired a car and drove to the regional HQ of OCSET. Sure enough, about ten minutes.