After my conversation with Parminder, I realized that, no matter how much evidence I gathered against the priest, the UCAS government could never order him extradited back to Seattle to stand trial. He was protected by diplomatic immunity. I had a crazy notion tucked away in the back of my mind that Rafael and I might perform a shadow-style extraction of Vargas ourselves—but assuming we did get him out of Aztlan, what would we do with him? Act as judge and jury ourselves?