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“I saw her giving orders to the crew of a trimaran”

“A trimaran?” Juan took out his phone and showed Parsons a screenshot of the two sketches that Kevin Nixon had drawn fro’s descriptions of thethe attack on her ships

“Is this the couple?”

Parsons’ face darkened when he saw them “One hundred percent Who are they?”

“The sister of our injured crewman had an encounter with them that was even worse than yours It took a while to run theraphic database we could find, but we finally spotted them in the records of the Australian prison systeus Polk and April Jin”

“They’re convicts?”

Juan nodded “Married to each other and released over a year ago Polk is a former police detective, and Jin is a former Royal Australian Navy officer They were convicted of eated for the murder of two people who discovered their schees stick”

“So why are they operating a factory way out here in the middle of nowhere?”

“We don’t know for sure, but we think it’s related to the incident in Port Cook It’s looking more like it was an attack than an accident”

Parsons nodded “I heard that six hundred–plus people were paralyzed You ht have been a party to that?”

“Yes Unwittingly”

Raven pulled the RHIB into the boat garage, where Julia aiting with a medical kit

“I’m Doctor Huxley, Chief Parsons,” she said as he stepped onto the loading platform “Let me take a look at that hand”

“I appreciate it,” he saidover his innocent role in Polk and Jin’s plans

While everyone else exited the RHIB and the hull plate closed behind thee and examined the wound