“Exactly.”
Silence.
Then everyone laughed.
The information on Maya’s drive, combined with Holt’s archive, exposed the entire operation.
Dozens of corrupt contracts were terminated.
Officials were removed.
The remote flight-control project was dismantled and rebuilt under international oversight.
Captain Reeves cooperated fully.
His sentence was reduced substantially because his testimony helped unravel the network.
And in one strange twist Maya never expected, the experimental treatment for Reeves’s daughter was funded anonymously.
Maya eventually discovered the donor.
Ethan.
She never mentioned it to him.
Some things did not need discussion.
Celeste faced an investigation of her own.
She had crossed lines nobody could ignore.
But the evidence she preserved prevented further misuse of the technology.
Aaron returned to official service.
Torres became something of an aviation legend despite repeatedly insisting in interviews:
“Maya Lin did not save the aircraft alone. We landed it together.”
As for Maya, newspapers called her a hero.
