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July 16 - Evening
May. 20th, 2007 07:11 pmMichelle's listening to Nadia's update, but mostly her thoughts are elsewhere, on the program she has running in the background on her workstation that is pulling up satellite images, five seconds apart, of Chris's condo for six hours before the bomb hit.
It hurts to see Chris so distraught. So hopeless.
So much like me
After the brief meeting, she's stopped by Nadia, who asks if she's noticed anyone using an exorbitant amount of system resources.
Michelle lies and says no, but when she gets back to her workstation she gives a silent apology and shuts down the search.
With Chris away at Division and everyone focusing on the possibility of more nukes out there, and intel points to at least one more, Michelle again wonders if they missed something with the Palmer assassination. Jack was set up and the only conclusion he reached was that there was no link. Their attention's been elsewhere, but Michelle has a hard time accepting that it was a separate attack and not connected to the series of bombings or the nuclear bomb that went off in Valencia.
Or what happened in China
Even Jack seems too willing to accept this conclusion. Although he's also been reluctant to investigate his abduction for reasons she understands but does not support.
And in the back of her mind is the thought that whoever's responsible for China is also responsible for Tony's death.
Making a decision, Michelle waits until everyone's engrossed in their work and closes the list of suspects she's been researching and double checking. She opens the link to the W drive and after a few moments of searching she finds the archive of Palmer's files.
Some items, mostly related to images and physical evidence had been accessed recently. The files on his computer, however, had been quickly searched and discarded. It's a complete shot in the dark, but Michelle's more than familiar with encryption and security. Tony once told her about how the best way to hide important information was in a plain sight. "They look right over the information that doesn't belong," he'd smiled, "now that doesn't mean you should start going through my files." She'd teasingly went for his computer and he'd grabbed her from behind and she'd laughed and then relaxed against his chest -- she mentally shakes herself, before opening up Palmer's documents. She still feels Tony's arms around her and she tries to will him away from her consciousness. She knows it's a losing battle, but usually she doesn't imagine he's with her. At least not anymore.
She starts opening up documents, going carefully through each page, but finding nothing. She is starting to wonder if there's anything to find, if maybe she's invented connections that don't exist, when she opens the latest draft of Palmer's press conference notes. The file's encrypted, which is unusual, but these are private thoughts. She opens up CTU's decryption program and a few commands later is granted access to the file.
After going through so many of his speeches, she's struck all over again by how much they lost a few days ago, and how deeply she admired him.
No, no time for sorrow, stop it, Michelle.
While scanning one of his later points, she sees a string of letters and numbers that doesn't seem to connect to anything around them. Her heart beats a little quicker as she re-reads to make sure she's right. "NDP-48102004D" she mouths, the code having no meaning to her. But it's an obvious code. And a possible link.
She runs it through a database of every known acronym or abbreviation but nothing makes sense.This was important and it had to mean something.
She has to tell someone, but needs to be careful. She spots Jack making his way to the situation room. "Jack!" she calls out, trying to get his attention.
It hurts to see Chris so distraught. So hopeless.
So much like me
After the brief meeting, she's stopped by Nadia, who asks if she's noticed anyone using an exorbitant amount of system resources.
Michelle lies and says no, but when she gets back to her workstation she gives a silent apology and shuts down the search.
With Chris away at Division and everyone focusing on the possibility of more nukes out there, and intel points to at least one more, Michelle again wonders if they missed something with the Palmer assassination. Jack was set up and the only conclusion he reached was that there was no link. Their attention's been elsewhere, but Michelle has a hard time accepting that it was a separate attack and not connected to the series of bombings or the nuclear bomb that went off in Valencia.
Or what happened in China
Even Jack seems too willing to accept this conclusion. Although he's also been reluctant to investigate his abduction for reasons she understands but does not support.
And in the back of her mind is the thought that whoever's responsible for China is also responsible for Tony's death.
Making a decision, Michelle waits until everyone's engrossed in their work and closes the list of suspects she's been researching and double checking. She opens the link to the W drive and after a few moments of searching she finds the archive of Palmer's files.
Some items, mostly related to images and physical evidence had been accessed recently. The files on his computer, however, had been quickly searched and discarded. It's a complete shot in the dark, but Michelle's more than familiar with encryption and security. Tony once told her about how the best way to hide important information was in a plain sight. "They look right over the information that doesn't belong," he'd smiled, "now that doesn't mean you should start going through my files." She'd teasingly went for his computer and he'd grabbed her from behind and she'd laughed and then relaxed against his chest -- she mentally shakes herself, before opening up Palmer's documents. She still feels Tony's arms around her and she tries to will him away from her consciousness. She knows it's a losing battle, but usually she doesn't imagine he's with her. At least not anymore.
She starts opening up documents, going carefully through each page, but finding nothing. She is starting to wonder if there's anything to find, if maybe she's invented connections that don't exist, when she opens the latest draft of Palmer's press conference notes. The file's encrypted, which is unusual, but these are private thoughts. She opens up CTU's decryption program and a few commands later is granted access to the file.
After going through so many of his speeches, she's struck all over again by how much they lost a few days ago, and how deeply she admired him.
No, no time for sorrow, stop it, Michelle.
While scanning one of his later points, she sees a string of letters and numbers that doesn't seem to connect to anything around them. Her heart beats a little quicker as she re-reads to make sure she's right. "NDP-48102004D" she mouths, the code having no meaning to her. But it's an obvious code. And a possible link.
She runs it through a database of every known acronym or abbreviation but nothing makes sense.This was important and it had to mean something.
She has to tell someone, but needs to be careful. She spots Jack making his way to the situation room. "Jack!" she calls out, trying to get his attention.
