Evergreen Tops Security Breach

The Security Breach that George Nearnight's team suffered while investigating MAFIA was one of the main plot lines throughout the Evergreen Tops district.

Role in cases
After arresting Clive Goldman for the murder of Mark Hilton, the team went to ask Montgomery Appleton (who had been one of the case suspects) if he knew anything about who had ordered the hit on Mark, since Clive had told the player that a secret society called MAFIA had told him to do it. Montgomery did not reply to the MAFIA password accordingly, so he was not part of the organization. However, after Jerry Bryar mentioned Thomas Ravens' name, Montgomery seemed shocked and asked where he knew him from. Jerry said that Thomas was one of their team's analysts and Montgomery simply walked away.
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Later, Everett Sanderson mentioned having seen Montgomery walking away from the Hilton & Hilton's golf course. After the player and Jerry went back there, they found a mysterious device buried under a pile of sand. The device was given to Thomas and he admitted that it was a device that he had made (which was meant to find secret microphones) but that he had no idea that it was in Montgomery's hands. He said that he did know Montgomery and that there was a story that he hadn't explained well to his teammates.

The player and Jerry asked Thomas what the story was. He said that two years prior, he had hacked Appleton Light Industries (Montgomery's company) just out of curiosity but eventually found out that his company was evading taxes. He publicly exposed the company and after hearing about his skills and sense of justice, Chief Nearnight asked him to join his team. Two weeks after that, he saw that Montgomery was trying to hack the network of their police squad but Thomas said that he had "controlled it".