She answered the call from her new lieutenant, Tricia Salazar, only to be yelled at. “He’s gone!” Odd way to start a conversation, but okay. She’d play along. “You didn’t chain him to the radiator?” “What? No. Why would I chain him to the radiator?” “The filing cabinet?” “No.” “The coffee maker?” “Is that even possible?” “Perhaps if I knew who we were talking about, I could answer that question.”
