Obviously, Hammer misunderstands Christina""s advice to "forget you ever saw me" - and doesn""t give up on an investigation into her demise...Whatever he humor or the joke, it""s rather bad taste to put on it.I think we""re agreed on that.Perhaps our humorist wouldn""t mind returning he Blue Water the way he got it - in the darkness.Turn off the lights, Isobel...Whoever took the Blue Water has had his chance.I don""t want a scandal at Brandon Abbas.I will leave the box on he table until morning.If the Blue Water is not back by then, of course I shall have to call the police.Good night.John: Have we a magician here?Digby: Or is Brandon Abbas haunted?The mystery of the stone""s disappearance is further heightened when the stone is not returned to its case.Neo stashed the wad of bills in a hollowed out book, titled "SIMULACRA & SIMULATION," in the chapter titled ""Nihilism...it""s bait, part of an internal molehunt," and told her he wanted to ask Job why he had been "disavowed" - he then promised to "deliver the actual NOC list," while warning her not to open up the ""worthless"" disk that was equipped with a homing device, that would automatically summon CIA agents within no more than 10 minutes.Ethan appears o be acting outside the law and may be a fugitive from the law:Ethan: Are you askin"" me as a Captain or a preacher, Sam?Clayton: I""m askin"" you as a Ranger of the sovereign state of Texas.