Caleb Ward is the man in Livingston, Montana, who gave Daniel work papers under false names and who told the FBI, seven years too late, that a bearded man and two boys had come through heading north.

“He had one more thing,” Bennett said.

“Say it.”

“In October of 2019, Daniel came back down to Montana. Alone — the boys were in Alaska, he’d left them with someone. He stayed four days. And on the fourteenth, Caleb drove him to a gas station outside Big Timber, and Daniel bought a prepaid phone, and he called you.”

The kitchen went very far away.

“He called the house?”