In the Miami Division building, Agent Gil briefs Saint on a new abduction: twenty-two-year-old Ashlee Miller was taken only two hours earlier when a van mounted the sidewalk on Crystal Avenue. The speed of the kidnapping and the narrow window to act intensify Saint’s urgency, because every passing minute increases the danger to Ashlee and any other potential victims.

As they work in a hot, airless office, Agent Gil handles calls while Saint reviews files and tries to understand Eli Aaron’s selection pattern. When Agent Gil asks how Eli Aaron chooses victims, Saint answers, “Sinners,” but the label is too broad to be useful on its own. Saint pushes past frustration and starts comparing the new case to earlier disappearances.

Saint then recalls a past conversation with Patch about Summer Reynolds. Instead of repeating basic case facts, Patch had focused on personal details: Summer played piano, was good at math, wanted to teach, and had been a highly capable Girl Scout who could navigate, camp, and survive outdoors alone. Those details trigger Saint’s next question about Ashlee Miller.

When Agent Gil checks with the field agent at Ashlee’s home, he learns from Ashlee’s girlfriend that Ashlee had just spent the previous weekend camping in Ocala National Forest. That answer gives Saint a working theory: Eli Aaron, who once told Saint that he liked to camp, may have seen Ashlee outdoors and later returned specifically to take her. The connection suggests that Eli Aaron may be choosing victims with camping or wilderness experience, not at random.

Acting on that possibility, Agent Gil rapidly coordinates a response. Even though Eli Aaron has likely changed the van’s plates again, Agent Gil has patrol cars move through campsites in the Keys. The strategy produces immediate movement in the case, and in less than an hour a call comes in, signaling a fresh lead.