“Yes. And I’m grateful and I’ve said so. And I’ve also spent a year of my life and about nine hundred thousand dollars of the Department’s money reconstructing what you handed me in ninety seconds, because you handed it to me in a way I can’t use.”

She let that sit exactly as long as it needed to. “Both of those are true.”

Vaillancourt said, “The second motion.”

Adeyemi looked at me properly for the first time.

“Defense has moved to have Ms. Harper named as an unindicted co-conspirator.”

The air conditioning cycled. Somewhere below us a truck reversed.