How did that feel?

Oh, it was devastating.

It's like fumbling on the goal line, ready to score the winning touchdown, and the other team picks it up and runs the other way and wins.

That's really what it felt like.

It was horrible.

I was irate.

Terry was upset.

But out of everyone on the task force, Rob is the most upset.

He's still reeling from the loss of his main suspect, the anti-development hermit who was safely under surveillance last night as Danielle's house burned.

The more this continued, somebody was gonna get hurt and possibly killed.

Firefighters were in danger.

When firefighters go in to fight these fires, they have no idea if there's a basement even on some of these homes.

Let's talk."

He came.

We stood at the car, and, uh, we literally shook hands and agreed how we would work this thing over the trunk of a car in the middle of the night.

An environmental group with a sprinkling of religious extremism.

So obviously we were looking like crazy, and, and this is early on with the internet, too.

It's not like it is today, right? I mean, we were just not able to find anything.

We thought this might be bogus.

They might be trying to throw us off.

Why would they identify themselves so easily? Or is this a group that's trying to establish themselves, and this is their first foray into criminal activity?

Everyone is waiting for Robb to speak.

Starting off, like, introducing ourselves, giving out our information, phone numbers, asking for information, sharing what limited information we could share of what we were doing and how important it was to us as a police department, hear their ideas or their concerns, and do what we could to address those.