“If I find the machine, I’ll find the pen,” she said.

“Plotter pens aren’t anonymous.”

She signed it, dated it in the corner, and passed it across the desk to me.

Six days left on Judge Winters’ clock.

The New Canaan branch had the heat turned up far too high for October, and the manager came around the counter before I’d even unbuttoned my coat.

Peter Halloran.

A small man in a careful tie, both hands on the paper as though it might fold itself back up.

“You want every wire authorization log from 2019 on,” he said.