"I could go," Russell says, even though he doesn't think it'll do much good. "Ask in an official capacity. Then she'll have to answer and it won't seem weird." Or maybe it will still seem weird, but people tend to answer when he asks questions so long as he's got his badge on him and even if it doesn't tell him anything, he'll be glad to know how long it's been and what the new woman living in Natalia's apartment might know.

"But you want my honest opinion? She's probably... she's probably gone." There's crime here, but there aren't a lot of disappearances. Bodies are generally found and the people who are gone tend to be the kind of gone he's heard about from the people who have lived on the island.