Later that night Daniel overheard them speaking privately in the kitchen where Harold warned that if Daniel discovered the truth about Grant’s disappearance everything they had built would collapse. Cynthia answered in a nervous whisper that they would have to deal with Daniel the same way they had dealt with Grant years earlier.
Terrified by the implication that my son’s d.ea.th had not been an accident, Daniel escaped through a bedroom window and spent months traveling from city to city using cash while avoiding digital records because he believed the Daltons were tracking his movements. He finally arrived at my house after discovering my address through old public records, and he admitted that he played a recording of Grant’s voice saying the word Dad during the phone call because he feared I might refuse to open the door for a stranger in the middle of the night.