He had seen to it that the crew would be overwhelmed at the worst possible moment.

He had boarded the flight to be certain it went the way he intended.

He had been willing to take three hundred people into the Atlantic to bury a spreadsheet.

Maya heard all of it with a stillness that frightened the detective a little, and said only: and the audit would have found it all anyway.

Yes, the detective said.

It would have.