An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

April pops into a coffee shop and demands a laptop. A young guy is honored to give her his computer, on which April pulls up her tweet of the TV screen on the plane. She instantly recognizes it as hexadecimal and emails it to Miranda and Maya. Maya converts it and finds that it is the lyrics to a Bowie song. Miranda inputs the latest version of the full code compiled on the Som and sends her the result. Though it isn’t complicated, Miranda says they should talk about it first. The result is an address in New Jersey with the words “Only April. No One Else.” (300).

Until that moment, April was fully prepared to call the president as soon as they cracked it; she was tired of making big decisions and screwing everything up. However, she gives in to the fantasy of what might be waiting for her at the end of this road. In her heart, she believes it will be a face-to-face meeting with the intelligence behind the Carls, and the thought of Petrawicki being at the meeting instead of her makes her angrier beyond belief.

After logging out of her accounts and returning the computer, April heads out.