Yeah, a cover up would work. It would also explain the inaccessibility of the ranking crew.
Sean tossed his pen down. Just the one guy at the meeting. I got the standard answer. They're covering, alright. I was thinking about them trying to avoid or minimize the inevitable lawsuits." He admitted to himself that his thoughts always went to a killer. It was narrowing his vision again. The broader picture was needed and he was trying to look at only a piece of it, because it was the most familiar. Missing people.
"If it's a cover up, what are they covering? If people died the night of the New Years wave, it wouldn't be surprising. There's be lawsuits, and an act of God fight, but it wouldn't have been direct negligence. And how does the clocks fit in?"