Lyla Washington was a little dreary when I arrived. The plane touched down an hour ago, it had been five a.m. and still dark outside. She booked a room at the Holiday Inn that was closest to the compound. She pulled out her laptop and found the blueprints for the compound. It wasn’t unlike Joker’s place. The Washington LOC was located just outside of Seattle. They bought an old school just as Joker had done, but this one was a two-story high school. There was no playground, no grass to play on. There was a lot of concrete and that was about it. There was a large twenty-foot fence around the school and I imagined that was why it had been chosen. Looking at the blueprints, I could see where the first floor would be the common area in the big lunchroom. They probably took over the

