The Surveillance Tapes, Part 2

Yesterday, Andrea Grenmuller, the owner and manager of the casino at the top of The Hand of Decado, revealed that she had an intimate relationship with David Troutman, one of the would-be assassins who tried to kill Rei. However, even though she had slept with Troutman several times, it had always been at her place and she did not know where he lived. She also told Rome and Rei that she was informed that Dan Steele, the other would-be assassin, had been to the casino earlier in the year but she didn't know exactly when. The only way to find out was to have MINIMCOM review all the surveillance tapes at high speed:

     Andrea pressed a single button and the images started flying by at super-speed. MINIMCOM remained motionless. Rei didn’t even know how the livetar transmitted what came in through the eye slits but however he accomplished it, MINIMCOM seemed to know what he was doing.
     After few minutes, MINIMCOM raised his hand and said, “Stop.”
     Andrea typed on the keyboard and the images froze. MINIMCOM bent his bullet-shaped head forward and pressed a few keys. When he rewound back to where he wanted, he expanded the image in the upper-left-hand quadrant so that it occupied the full screen.
     “This is what you seek,” he said. Rei and Rome came over to join Andrea in front of the monitor. MINIMCOM pressed a key and the video began playing back at normal speed.
     MINIMCOM pointed to a figure dressed in dark clothes, entering the field of vision from the left-hand side. “That is Steele,” the livetar said. “Although he has his face obscured, I was able to get a sufficient match using biometrics.”
     They watched as the furtive figure sat down at one of the hoker tables. He tossed a few coins down and received chips. For a short while, he played the game like a regular person, winning some hands, losing others.
     “Look!” Rome shouted, pointing at the screen. A very short woman, Vuduri most likely judging from the white jumpsuit, sat down next to Steele. “Can you zoom in on her face?” Rome asked.
     MINIMCOM tapped on a few keys and the interaction between Steele and the woman took up the entire screen. However, the woman was wearing a cap and a visor that looked like a wraparound frameless pair of sunglasses.
     “Why would a Vuduri woman be wearing sunglasses?” Rei addressed toward Rome. “Your internal iris would make it unnecessary.”
     “Either she is mandasurte, dressed like a Vuduri, or she did not want anyone to see her face,” Rome answered. “I suspect the latter.”
     In the video, the woman leaned over and whispered in Steele’s ear. He snapped his head back and looked at her intently. She pointed toward the front door. Immediately, Steele grabbed his chips and followed her out of the camera’s field of view.

Ah-hah! The mysterious Vuduri woman who they knew to be helping Troutman and Steele. But why? Who was she and why did she want Rei dead? The mystery deepens.