At the U.S. embassy, Michael Harris leaves a private meeting with the ambassador shaken after being partially “read in” on classified information. He realizes the day’s crisis is bigger than the reported bomb scare at the Four Seasons and regrets having pulled his colleague Dana Daněk into his questions about a woman seen on Charles Bridge.

Harris hurries to Dana’s office and orders her to shut down the surveillance feeds. When Dana hesitates, Harris yanks the power plug from her computer to force the screens off, then asks her to forget everything he requested. Sensing Dana will not drop the issue, Harris tries to defuse her suspicion by proposing dinner and implying he will explain later.

Harris leaves the embassy in a black Audi, following a new instruction from the ambassador before he goes to Crucifix Bastion. He recalls the ambassador’s assurance that Robert Langdon will remain safe for now because Captain Oldřich Janáček is “well under control,” and Harris connects multiple threads—his off-book work, Gessner’s lab, the bridge woman, and Katherine Solomon’s upcoming publication—as parts of a larger plan.

After Harris departs, Dana—angry at being manipulated—decides to continue investigating. She reboots the surveillance portal, rewinds to early morning footage, and finds the spiked-halo woman already waiting alone on the eastern end of Charles Bridge. Dana zooms in, notes the woman’s young, attractive appearance, and suspects Harris’s interest might be personal.

Prioritizing identification, Dana captures clear facial close-ups and runs them through the embassy’s international facial-recognition systems. She escalates the search from criminal and passport databases to sweeping social-media image pools, convinced the woman’s identity will surface quickly in modern intelligence networks.