"Two days, maybe? Three? Depends on exactly how much paperwork they have to do but it's Mrs. Henslowe withdrawing him, not a legal battle."

"Would anything terrible happen if we camped out in the plane for a couple of days?" She is kind of joking but only kind of.

"I don't want some thugs to sabotage my plane."

"Frank, would going to LA and then turning around give you enough resting time between flights? Running you ragged wouldn't be doing ourselves any favors, either."

"That sounds like I could handle it, I did worse in the army. The big problem is the turnaround when I pick up Lev, but worst comes to worst I can sleep in the plane with my handgun and be prepared if any thugs try any mischief."

"Do we have reason to believe that we're working under time pressure? I don't want to assume that it'll be fine to leave things for three more days if someone might be one step ahead of us and capable of sabotaging our leads in LA before we get there."

"I don't think so? Whatever's going on has been sitting for ten years."

"If those thugs have any friends out west, then I wouldn't be too surprised if they also made to stop us."

"And of yesterday they know that someone's looking."

"Do they definitely know we're headed to LA?"

"No, but they presumably know that that's where it happened?"

"And they know we left our hotel, and possibly town. If these guys are part of the same cult that sucked Lev in in the first place, I'd expect most of them to be in LA and these guys to be a small offshoot just for watching Joy Grove."

"Do we have a reason to think that, they're from Bangkok and none of the other names we have sound Thai."

"I'm just saying that it's clear that someone is monitoring this, and that someone is going to know that the case happened in LA, and is probably going to have some idea who has connections to Lev."

"-- to be clear I'm not invested in sticking around, I'm invested in not leaving Lev on the streets, if we're all in favor of going to LA and doubling back I have no objections to this plan."

"Yeah, I think we should go and double back. The main problem I see with that is that we might run into things in LA that make us hesitant to leave immediately, but I don't think we solve any problems by not knowing what those things might be. We should talk about how to cover as much ground as quickly as possible on the way there, though."

Frank takes this as a decision and gets into the cockpit.

The investigators join him inside of the plane.

"Would Mrs. Henslowe be willing and able to put Mr. Aarons up for a few days if we can't leave LA quickly?"

"I'd be worried about the thugs targeting him."

"Did they target Henslowe when he was released? --We don't know, I suppose, but if it had endangered Mrs Henslowe she hopefully would've mentioned."

"If at all possible we should be around to pick him up right away, and possibly have some, er, backup."

"I don't they targeted Henslowe. But they may have thought that he wasn't a threat by himself, and now the situation has changed."

"But if Mrs. Henslowe will let us know when to arrive to get him, and we plan to get there a bit early in case of mishap, I think that should cover us."

After discussing her plans for LA with the rest of the investigators, Anemone heads for bed and quietly attempts to explain the situation to Magnificence in simple words that he might be able to get the gist of, comb his fur, and tell him a story. Partly for his sake and partly because Secretly she is in fact a lil bit shaken by all of this and some normalcy seems good right now.

Zoe spends the entire flight restless and itching to sneak into some abandoned building under cover of night. She gets some sleep but has creepy dreams about mouths and big burly Asian men in orderly uniforms.