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I ask if anyone knew that Morgan was alive and working for the enemy now.

"I doubt it. I would have received something about it, so that means no one knew what happened to Lee," she says, sounding pained and angry.

"You sure about that, Altug?" Balogh asks her, his eyes narrowed. "You could be covering it up under orders…"

She shakes her head and points at her nose. "I'm pretty damn sure that I haven't been covering it up, otherwise I wouldn't have gotten this broken nose and skull fracture, thanks," she says sharply. "You know me, Patrik, I'd never keep this shit from you."

He's silent for a while, and then she continues. "Believe me. As far as I know, everyone is still out there searching for Lee. Well, now in a different way, obviously, but the search is still ongoing. There's a lot of technology that disappeared with Lee, and they don't want it to end up in the wrong hands, that's why. No one wants to find our suits reverse-engineered and used against us."

Balogh shakes his head and says, "So it's all just to make sure that we don't have a chink in our defenses?"

Altug shakes her head. "Of course not. I wanted the kid back with us safe and sound, but I just needed to let you know that I had no idea that this was going to happen, and there's a high chance that nobody else knew as well. We're all just as surprised about this as you are, and that's why we were infiltrated," she explains, and there's silence for a while after she finishes talking.