With
Van Kerrel's password broken,
Marius reads the only document in the protected folder: a note from Van to
Johnny Bailey forgiving him for murdering Van, who had collected all the works fraudulently sold to
Bob Davis and left them in a warehouse for Johnny to collect and start over. Marius also obtains the travel records for Johnny's twin,
Bobby Davis, who returned to Stellis in time to commit the crime, as well as the paternity test results showing Johnny is a 99% match to Bob and his wife. The
main character also remembers the flower petal found in an earlier investigation and confirms via the Big Data Lab that it could only have come from the neighboring state that Johnny had supposedly been away visiting at the time of the crime.
As the pair puts these clues together, the room fills with smoke from a sudden fire, and they escape via the study room window onto the roof of the shed.