If I had said any of them, Gerald Rask would have known, at twelve minutes past twelve on that Tuesday, exactly what I understood and exactly how much of it I could prove.

He would have had until Thursday to move three entities and close two accounts, and his lawyer would have had a nineteen-month head start on a story.

Instead he had a son-in-law who came in, said one word, and left, and who might have understood nothing at all.

He spent the next eleven days doing nothing, because he did not know he needed to.

And in those eleven days I got everything.