Level three is empty. No woman in an expensive coat. No cars. You wait twenty minutes in the shadows before you understand: the meeting was cancelled when Ida stopped reporting in. They made her, and they pulled back.
You take the train to Nørrebro, and as you cross the bridge over the lakes you see a police cordon two blocks from your apartment building. Blue lights. An ambulance.
You do not stop.
You find a hotel near the airport and sit on the bed with the USB drive in your hand. Ida Hartmann is dead because you sent her back to them. That is the fact. You can carry it or you can use it.
You choose to use it.
In the morning, you go to Hellerup alone.
The story pauses here…