“Can you copy the whole unedited file without compressing the audio?” I asked.

Mrs.

Higgins took a small black velvet box out of her desk drawer and slid a heavy metal drive across the blotter.

“I bought four of these encrypted drives when the property dispute with your mother started,” she said.

“This file is raw, timestamped, and completely untouched.”

She typed three commands on her keyboard, and a green progress bar filled the middle monitor.

“It takes seven minutes to clear the write block,” Mrs.