Chapter 22

 

 

-Elizabeth-

 

 

While all of this was going on at Sentry, Halkias and Feldman were meeting in a working class diner across town from the business center where no one would know who they were. They were dressed casually in an attempt to fit in, but it was obvious that there clothes didn’t come from Kmart or Old Navy. Halkias was paranoid when it came to avoiding any possibility of anyone in their group being connected with anyone else in the group. His number one priority has always been to keep the existence of the group completely hidden from public view. The fact that Jergensen and Sheehan had seen them together at the Chez Genevieve has been eating at him ever since he found out about their visit to his office.

 

With concern clearly etched in both of their facial features, they were discussing the possible fallout of the investigation of the plane crash. Halkias was saying, “At this point, all we can do is surmise. If the tail number of the plane wasn’t destroyed in the fire resulting from the crash, the authorities know that IISS is the owner of the plane and that you are the head of IISS. If any ID of your employees was found, that discovery will eventually lead to you as their employer even if the tail number has been destroyed. The authorities will be curious about why a flight plan wasn’t filed and you’re going to need a convincing response to their inquiry. Of course, we know that filing one would have been useless because they had no idea where the plane they were following was headed. So, that’s problem number one.”

 

Feldman interjected with, “Problem number two and the more serious one is finding out who this Joel Jergensen and Barbara Sheehan really are and why they were sniffing around your offices. My investigators tell me that this Clear Sky Enterprises is nothing but a shell corporation that is engaged in absolutely nothing. If there not up to something completely kosher, a shell like this could come in handy in a lot of situations. I have my investigators digging for background on these two and hopefully will have some info shortly.”

 

“Good. I think it’s time I call another Last Resort meeting to bring everyone up to date and consider moving up our time schedule. Forces have come into play that perhaps necessitate that.

I expected some intelligent retaliation to our attacks, but not so effective and so quickly. Whoever out primary opposition is they are no lightweights. President Weinstein and his pack of incompetents didn’t come up with these sophisticated tactics to thwart us on their own. Outside help has been brought in and we’ve got to find out who they are and remove them from the picture.

 

“Another potential problem is that we and perhaps others in The Last Resort have come under suspicion of playing a part in the recent attacks on America’s infrastructure. Jergensen and Sheehan’s visit to my office and their use of a phony corporation to get information about me has set off my internal RED ALERT. We may have to go underground to avoid any further disruptions in the carrying out of our game plan. How are your people doing with their research on a way to neutralize the countermeasures that have been inflicted on us?”

 

“They’re working on it every hour of the day. My people are the best there is. They’ll come up with what is needed.”

 

“I have no doubt of that. The time it takes them to do that is the issue. We may be running out of that. I always prepare for the worst. That way there are no surprises. I don’t like surprises. Perhaps going underground is the way for us to go. I’m going to call a meeting for tomorrow night at seven. Hopefully, by then you’ll have more info on these two interlopers and ways to deal with the countermeasures being used against us.”