As Hunter and Rink drive away, Hunter returns a missed call from Raul Velasquez about the address they traced. Velasquez reports that the house is owned not by a private person but by a Panama City real estate company. Census and online records list the resident as Suzanne Carter, a forty-two-year-old former Tampa kindergarten teacher who changed careers and became a licensed realtor after moving to Panama City four years earlier.

To test whether Suzanne Carter is really Suzanne Bouchard under an alias, Hunter asks for a current photo. Velasquez sends one, and the image rules that theory out: Carter is a different woman with visible burn scars on her face. Hunter and Rink note that keeping the same first name would have made sense for someone using a false identity, but the photo makes clear that Carter and Bouchard are not the same person.

That discovery shifts Hunter's attention from the house to the company that owns it. Hunter realizes the real estate agency's name matches one of the brass plaques he saw earlier at the office building Mercer and Suzanne Bouchard visited. Because both the house and the office connect back to the same company, Hunter concludes that Mercer and Suzanne Bouchard likely have a deeper link to the agency than a simple rental arrangement.

Hunter then considers Walter Hayes Conrad's order to stand down. He and Rink infer that Conrad already knew more than he admitted and that Hunter's report has probably given him the last lead he needed. Convinced Conrad is sending a kill team after Mercer and possibly Suzanne Bouchard, Rink ignores the order, turns the car around at a gas station, and decides to warn Suzanne Bouchard even though she recently fired at him and may not spare him if he approaches again.