Pistachio blew the Monas bunker and began looking for a terrified captive. He saw Malik, but something wasn't right. Malik wasn't trembling. Pistachio: While hacking through the wires to some gas canisters, Malik cracks a thin smile that conveys so much.
"You're late, Pistachio," Malik whispered. He raised his wrist and looked at a smartwatch grafted onto the couple's own heart-rate sensors. "I'm not a prisoner. "I'm the Gujarati bait, meant to confirm that you were smart enough to figure out where we buried the last encryption key in that 'Garden' file.
Malik was the mole, used to ensure that Pistachio, the only honest investigator left in town, would endorse the evidence.