We were at that shit for hours. Piecing shit together, moving things around to come up with the answers.
Once we found the right thread and begun to tug, it became easier to connect the dots and the picture that was painted was not a pretty one.
"So here, twenty years ago, Khalil was still a kid, but his old man started the search for the girl. It looks like they didn't know who exactly had taken her, so it took them some time to whittle it down to the commander."
We'd only got this far because of Mancini and his connections who he'd called for some information going back all those years.
It was tedious work because we had to follow the general going back twenty years and then moving forward again to see when exactly his path had crossed with Khalil's.
Once we found the connection it wasn't hard to pull in the politicians and see their part in the whole filthy mess.