When she finally spoke, Julia sounded weirdly normal, as if delivering remarks from the White House briefing room. "When we surrendered," she said, "they took my gun, and they tortured Spencer Grindstaff until he spilled everything he knew about the IT systems here. All the passwords, all the back doors, all the details as to how it all works. Exactly what they would need in order to take the place over. Then they killed him, and..."