That’s different from giving somebody permission to take it.”

At noon, Miller brought over a small drive containing an exported copy of the camera footage.

He said he would keep the original files on his system and showed us how his camera displayed the time.

“It runs a few minutes fast,” he warned.

“Always has.”

Frank wrote that down.

His old computer struggled to play the file clearly, so we took the copy to the library.

I had not been inside since the previous Wednesday.