“The legal framework is locked.

I want you to understand exactly what is now in motion, so that you can board that plane and rest, because you have done the hard part and the rest is procedure.”

He laid it out for me, step by step, the way he laid out everything.

Federal marshals, a caseworker from child protective services, and a court-appointed family law advocate were, even now, being assembled to be present at Terminal 4 of Los Angeles International Airport.

The emergency Hague petition was filed.