Parents Weekend

Keller and her family are getting ready for a day at the beach when she gets a call from Richard Peters, her new boss at the San Jose office. Due to extenuating circumstances he doesn’t specify, Peters instructs Keller to help campus police with their search for the missing students.

Keller meets Chief Jay McCray at the Campus Safety Services (CSS) office. Photos of four students are pinned to the conference room wall. Chief McCray explains the extenuating circumstances: Two students have parents with “unique security profiles” (86). His team contacted the phone companies and learned that all the students’ cell phones stopped pinging around 8:30 pm the previous night, near Rancho San Antonio Park. They’ve sent out a BOLO—be on the look-out—alert and are currently reviewing campus access data and security camera footage, searching the dorms, and surveying the park’s hiking trails by foot and drone. McCray asks Keller to talk to Cynthia Roosevelt, who respects federal law enforcement more than campus police.

Keller meets with Cynthia and her chief of staff, Paul, in Cynthia’s SUV. Paul says there’s no evidence that the students’ disappearance is connected to Cynthia’s job and the bounty on her, but they’re under strict security protocols just in case.