He nodded his agreement that it was someone on their side of the law. It's what he was suspecting in the first place. He bristled at her comment that it couldn't possibly be a hacker just because he was a hacker. He was about to speak his mind with a stinging rebuttle when she said that she had heard whispers for awhile. Instead of the sharp comment he'd been about to make his jaw dropped open and he actually looked up from his phone at her.

"A couple weeks? No... No that can't be right."He'd heard of it only this morning. Not even whispers, but she'd been hearing things on the street for weeks?The number of cameras that were everywhere these days he should have heard something if it had been around for weeks. It would have shown up in a camera feed, or a whispered conversation. He had programs to pick up hints of any kinds of treasures being talked about in his area afterall. No. There was no way that it could have escaped his detection without something shady going on. People whispering only where there was absolutely no technology around for a couple whole weeks? Absolutely impossible.

After several moments of stunned silence as he got his thoughts together he spoke. His voice coming out rough with forced calm. If it's not a hacker that has been covering every trace of the opals for two weeks, it has to be someone on our side of the law that has been making sure that no one but you would hear whispers about them until the right time. The web has been completely silent until this morning when it went live that they were ripe for the picking, and than suddenly stolen by you. He took a breath and looked into her eyes, his voice suddenly very serious. "Just you. Who'd you piss off?" There was no way around it, and now that he'd butt in, it was his problem to. Well butt in by her forcing him to, but if he was about to be set up for it as well. He'd already been added to the watch list for the opals when the fox had already been the only suspect.

His gut dropped. "You don't think..." he gulped shaking his head. "Anything special make you want to go after them tonight?"