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     conflict.mdwn \
     newhardware.mdwn \
     assault.mdwn \
-    ambush.mdwn
+    ambush.mdwn \
+    arrest.mdwn
 
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     origin.mdwn
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+# Arrest
+
+Anna knocks on the kitchen table. "We're agreed then. Given Antero is
+out and Sam is in charge, we can void the termination of the contract
+and continue working as if the ambush meeting never happened. Good.
+I'll let Sam know at once."
+
+She goes to her own office, and dials on her phone. "Hi, Sam, we've
+discussed the situation. We're happy to cancel the termination of our
+contract, and continue as if nothing had happened. Is that OK with
+you?"
+
+"Yes! Thank you."
+
+"However, I'm sure you'll understand if we will find it hard to
+collaborate with Anders in the future. We feel he destroyed any trust
+we had in him. When it comes to technical things, he's good, we agree
+with that, but without mutual trust there's no basis for working
+together."
+
+"I understand. I'm afraid I don't have a legal basis to fire him, but
+I can move him away from the new platform project and give him
+something else to do. Is that acceptable to you?
+
+"Sure. Thank you."
+
+----
+
+Robin types frantically on IRC. "I just read in the news about
+Antero's arrest. Here's a link. I'll be in the kitchen if anyone else
+wants to discuss this."
+
+She stands up, picks up her phone, and goes to the kitchen. She puts
+the kettle on, discussing worrisome things is always more pleasant
+with tea.
+
+Andy, Bert, and Nina stroll in. Anna is away for the day, running
+personal errands. Robin pours tea for everyone. Andy pick up his mug
+and sits down. "Fraud, eh?"
+
+Robin nods. "Not entirely surprising, given how he wanted to replace
+an existing subcontractor just to bring in his buddies. That's not
+an honest thing to do and, well, wherever someone's doing something
+fishy, it's not unusual for them to do other fishy things as well."
+
+Bert smiles. "Yeah, just like in code. Where there's one bug, there's
+probably more."
+
+Andy clears his throat. "I'm not surprised, but I find the way he was
+caught to also be suspicious. Why would he have printed all those
+incriminating documents?"
+
+"The paper said he claims an intrusion into SmartHome systems." Bert
+shrugs and looks into his mug. "Doesn't sound very likely either,
+though."
+
+"The documents seem to be real, though." Robin sips some tea. "Maybe
+they have a whistle blower. The Smart Home IT people say they're sure
+there wasn't an intrusion."
+
+Nina laughs briefly. "As if they would know."
+
+The office doorbell rings. Robin looks around. "Anyone expecting
+visitors?" Everybody shakes their head. Robin gets up and goes to open
+the door. Two men in civilian clothes and two in police uniforms
+stand outside.
+
+"Good morning, ma'm. I'm detective Lax. Is Nina Nirvi here? We are
+looking for her."
+
+Robin tilts her head. "Yes she is. May I ask what this is about?"
+
+"We have a warrant for her arrest. Let us in, please."
+
+The police start walking at Robin, who decides to step aside, and then
+closes the door after everyone is in. She shouts, "Nina! The police
+are here to arrest you."
+
+The detectives look at her crossly, but before they have time to say
+anything, Nina pokes her head through the kitchen door. "Arrest me?
+Whatever for?"
+
+The older detective, a rotund man with gray heir and several days'
+worth of gray stubble, turns towards Nina. "Are you Nina?"
+
+"Yes I am. Who are you?"
+
+"I'm detective Lax. I have a warrant for your arrest on suspicion of
+computer intrusion at the Smart Home office the day before yesterday.
+Where were you in the evening that day and can anyone corroborate?"
+
+"What do you mean?"
+
+"Do you have an alibi?"
+
+"Wait, what? Why would it matter where I was when the intrusion
+happened?"
+
+"Just answer the question, miss."
+
+"No, I don't have an alibi. Robin, can you help me get a lawyer,
+please?"
+
+"Of course." She takes out her phone and aims its camera at the police
+officers. "Smile! I'm taking a photo so that the lawyer can identify
+you later." The phone makes a shutter sound.
+
+The older detective turns towards her. His face is contorted. "Hey!
+You can't do that! Delete the photo at once!" He tries to grab the
+phone from Robin. The younger detective puts his hand on the older
+one's shoulder. "Sir, I don't think you can demand that. We don't have
+the authority to do that."
+
+"Damn these times. When I was young..." He stops abruptly in the
+middle of the sentence. The younger detective turns to Nina. "I'm
+afraid you'll have to come with use to the station now, miss. Do you
+need a jacket or something?"
+
+"I'll come along. I'll be just a minute to get my coat. Robin, send
+the lawyer to the station, please. I'll leave my bag here."
+
+The younger detective shakes his head. "We'll have to take the bag
+with us, too, as evidence. And your phone and laptop."
+
+"As the person currently in charge at the office, I'll have to have a
+receipt for the laptop. It's owned by the company." Robin is standing
+with her hand in her pocket, with her phone.
+
+The receipt is made. Nina is taken away with her stuff.
+
+"Right. That was fun." Robin scratches her head. "I don't understand
+why they'd suspect Nina, though. Oh well. I'll let Anna know and we'll
+get Nina a lawyer."
+
+"Should we take Nina a care package?" Bert smiles. "A cake with a file
+would be traditional."
+
+"Let's see what happens, first. Maybe they just want to question her
+and won't keep her overnight. Don't see why they would. It's not like
+she's suspected of anything violent."
+
+----
+
+"All right then, miss. Where were you the day before last, in the
+evening, from 18 onward?" The older detective is standing at the table
+in the interrogation room, leaning on his fists on the table. Nina is
+sitting in a chair, and the younger detective is also sitting, across
+from Nina.
+
+"Lawyer first. I'm not answering any questions until I have my lawyer
+present."
+
+"What do you have to hide?"
+
+Nina just looks blankly at the old man. He looks back, his face getting more
+red.
+
+"You're behaving like a guilty person."
+
+Nina continues to look, being impassive.
+
+"We opened your laptop. There was green text on a black background,
+for about a second, before the screen locked itself. What's the
+password for unlocking it?"
+
+Nina doesn't move a muscle.
+
+"Do you know suspicious that is? The whole laptop smells of a hacker.
+The screen colors alone show it's used by a criminal, but also all the
+stickers. What's EFF? I did a search. They look like some sort of
+pirate group. And there's a sticker for the Pirate party as well. I
+would not be surprised if there's illegally copied software, viruses,
+and child porn on the laptop. You young people think you're smarter
+than anyone, and are always involved with that kind of shit. No
+respect for authority."
+
+Nina doesn't react.
+
+"What's the password?"
+
+The detective hits the table with his fist. "Dammit, girl. We can
+prove you're a criminal. Only criminal hackers have green text on a
+black background. We'll jail you if you don't give the password. Now!"
+
+Nina tilts her head to the side. "Lawyer."
+
+----
+
+"You did the right thing, not answering any questions without me,
+Nina. I wish all my clients did that." A balding, athletic man in his
+forties wearing a dark suit with a yellow tie sits across the table
+from Nina. They're in the same interrogation room, but alone.
+
+"Thanks. Now what happens?" Nina drinks a little from a glass of water
+on the table.
+
+"We're going to have to answer some questions, but before we do,
+here's what I know so far. The police don't seem to have any actual
+evidence to implicate you. They suspect you only because the staff at
+Smart Home told them about the stunt you pulled in that first meeting
+with them."
+
+"What? That was ages ago."
+
+"Indeed. However, I have to ask, under client-attorney privilege, so
+that I can form the right strategy. Did you break into Smart Home's
+computers the day before yesterday?"
+
+Nina doesn't hesitate. "No."
+
+"Good. Then I'll work on the basis that you're innocent, and that the
+police need to be convinced that you are. If you weren't, my strategy
+would be to avoid you going to jail, or avoid you getting convicted,
+or at least you getting a small a punishment as possible."
+
+"I'd really like to have a criminal record."
+
+"Of course. And there's no reason why you should get any record from
+this thing. Like I said, there seems to be no evidence against you. In
+fact, the Smart Home IT people are saying there hasn't been any
+intrusion. They think you're a bit of an arrogant poophead, but they
+changed the wifi password after your stunt, so it can't have been you,
+this time."
+
+"What do the police have? Do they have anything at all?"
+
+"No. They heard about your stunt, and they find it hard to believe
+that Antero's computer would've printed all those documents by itself.
+Frankly, so do I."
+
+"Yeah, it'd be a weird bug. But given how incompetent Antero is with
+computers, maybe he printed them by mistake and didn't realize?"
+
+"Ho hum. I may suggest that to the detective."
+
+"The detective is an incompetent idiot as well. Especially about
+computers."
+
+"I don't disagree. I've dealt with him before. What did he do this
+time?"
+
+"He says my using green on black terminal windows is proof that I'm a
+criminal."
+
+"What? Not again. Okay, if he's that desperate, I'll have you out in
+an hour or so."
+
+----
+
+The Team's kitchen is filled with laughter and empty pizza boxes.
+
+"What a dunderhead!" Bert is trying to eat his last slice, but is
+laughing too hard to be able to take a bit of the slice flopping in
+her hand, in front of his face.
+
+"I would not believe it myself, but I did some searching." Andy is
+smiling, but happily takes the last bite and wipes his hands with a
+napkin. "It's not the first time the police thinks terminal colors
+is proof of being a criminal. Campus police in the US arrested a
+student on that basis some years ago."
+
+"No, really?" Robin has almost a whole slice left. "I have trouble
+believing how stupid humanity is, sometimes."
+
+"I'm happy they let you go, Nina." Anna is more serious than the
+others. "I wish they'd dropped all charges, but they wouldn't. They're
+continuing the investigation."
+
+Nina wipes her lips. "Yeah, the lawyer said, but he's sure they'll
+have to drop the charges later, since there's no actual evidence. Not
+against me, and not even that a crime has been committed."
diff --git a/index.mdwn b/index.mdwn
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@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ There may be contradictions. Retconning in the future is possible.
 * Chapter 4: [[New hardware platform|newhardware]]
 * Chapter 5: [[Assault]]
 * Chapter 6: [[Ambush]]
+* Chapter 7: [[Arrest]]
 * to be continued
 
 # Meta
diff --git a/preamble.mdwn b/preamble.mdwn
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@@ -2,8 +2,10 @@
 title: Hacker Noir
 author: Lars Wirzenius
 date: work in progress
+documentclass: book
 ...
 
+\newpage
 
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