“No,” Neal and Ellen say almost at the same time. She gives him an amused look.

“Not yet.” Ellen is the one who speaks first. “I don’t want to risk scaring him into deep hiding by putting pressure on him. If we don’t hear anything, then we can look for him.”

Neal nods, agreeing silently. He’d run, if he were Sam and someone started looking for him right now. Right after being contacted by an old friend.

“It won’t make me safer in the short term,” Ellen adds, “but in the long run? Yes.”