A knock echoed through Elias’s headphones. Simultaneously, in the video, the woman stood up and walked toward her front door. Elias felt a cold spike of adrenaline. He looked at the file name again: 19303. 19303 was his own zip code.
He looked at the furniture in the video. The green sofa. The teak coffee table. The specific pattern of the rug. He looked around his own darkened apartment. It wasn't his home, but it was nearby. He recognized the layout—it was the apartment complex across the street. 19303.rar
He didn't open it. He knew what was inside. He looked at the door of the apartment across the way, then back at his own. He realized the "sequence" wasn't about the files. It was about the deliveries. A knock echoed through Elias’s headphones