The front porch camera showed the dark driveway and the streetlights sweeping across Dublin.

The back patio camera showed the wooden table under a thin coat of winter ice.

When I tapped the icon for the garage driveway camera, the screen stayed black.

According to the system status log, the feed had been disconnected by hand from the home hub at four o’clock Ohio time.

Somebody had gone to the utility panel in the laundry room and pulled the video cable.

I tapped my thumb against my index finger three times on the mahogany desktop.