Those Empty Eyes

For two years after winning her case, Alex lived under the care of the Lancasters but now attends university in Cambridge, England. She has been lying to the Lancasters about what she’s doing in Europe: Although she’s technically enrolled in university, she’s actually searching for answers about her family’s murders.

On a train leaving Paris, Alex reflects on how the police chalked her family’s murders up to a botched home invasion—a theory that doesn’t explain the lone fingerprint found on the windowsill and the photo of three women left at the bottom of her parents’ bed. Alexandra has been investigating these two pieces of evidence, along with a box of unmarked statements from a Swiss bank that she found in her father’s belongings, as she tries to solve the mystery herself.

Alex speaks to a banker at the Swiss bank where the statements originated. She transfers $1,000,000—money from her settlement—into the bank and then tries to bribe the banker to give her information about the statements. Since no name is attached to the statements, the banker refuses, so Alex leaves. However, the banker’s assistant, Drew Estes, recognizes Alex.