He was walking faster than before, and there was a compression in his shoulders that Camille read immediately. Someone who had made a decision and was now past reconsidering it. He crossed the room in three strides. He set the form on the table with more force than necessary, pressing it flat with his palm. I need your identification.
I provided my name at the screening area. Camille Johnson. I've asked you to verify it through the directory multiple times. I need a governmentissued photo ID. My judicial credential is the appropriate document for staff entry.
It failed due to what appears to be a system error. The correct response to that is directory verification using the name on the credential. I've asked you to do that four times. If you can't produce ID, I can't release you from secondary screening. I'm asking you again.
Verify my name through the internal directory. It will take you 30 seconds. Ethan placed his hand flat on the table between them. Where is your ID? In my bag, which is in your screening area because I was brought back here before I could retrieve it.
He looked at the bag on the table. Open it. She opened it. She removed a slim wallet. She placed it in front of him.
He picked it up and opened it. He saw the name. He saw the credential type. He looked at her. She looked back.
He closed the wallet and set it on the table. He picked up his radio. In the lobby, Jonathan watched Ethan step back to the screening station with his radio. He saw Ethan's posture change. The form that Ethan had been filling out was on the desk in front of him.
Ethan looked at it. Then Ethan's hand moved to the keyboard of the terminal. The directory came up. Jonathan wrote, "Officer accessed directory terminal 834. " Ethan read what the directory said. He read it twice.
He set down the radio. He looked at the security room door. He picked up the radio again. At 8:35, judicial administration noticed that a superior court judge assigned to a special morning briefing had not appeared and was not responding to standard communications. A staff member pulled up the building access system to track her location.