She looked around the SUV, and found what she was looking for. The corporate security firm had packed the SUV with everything she’d asked for, plus many extras. ”All our latest toys, doll,” her friend had drawled in his Texas twang as he tossed her the keys. She thanked him with kiss on the cheek and a grateful hug.

Still, she was a cautious person and she’d swept through the SUV with her own latest toys, pulling into a neighborhood street of a suburb next to the sprawling campus of the security firm in the technology corridor near the Dulles airport area, in order to do so. She wanted to make sure there was no hidden surveillance equipment in the SUV or in the equipment that had been prepared for her. She picked up the late model binoculars from one knapsack, and a long-range camera from the camera bag next to it. She was about to shut the door when she decided to sling a couple of sniper rifles onto her back, to practice using their scopes. Her friend had said the rifles were very new to the market, and Miller had never handled them before. She’d need to find a range somewhere to practice shooting from them, too. In the meantime, she might as well get used to handling their scopes.

She alighted from the car and crouched low to crawl through the tall grass to get to the top of a hill from which she could surveil Peter’s estate and the surrounding grounds. She lowered herself to a flat space on the ground and re-checked the time and date stamps on all the gear she’d brought with her. 12:30, they all read back to her. Good, everything synched. She checked the safeties on the rifles to make sure they were on.

She used the binoculars to scan her immediate surroundings. Nothing unusual. She did a wider sweep of the area, and still saw nothing unusual. Next she picked up her camera to see if she could take a few trial shots of the farthest distance the camera could reach.

She trained the camera towards the buildings in Peter’s estate. The lens picked up images from it easily. Miller took a few shots and traced a line to what looked like the broad front door area of the handsome main house of the estate, taking a series of continuous shots.