Echo pushed Paul back against the car.
"The dollhouse is real. They know you're after them and they're going to have you taken off the case. That's why they sent me," she told him.
Paul breathed heavily. "Why are you telling me this?"
"We have a person inside. This person corrupted the imprint while the programmer wasn't looking, added this parameter," she replied.
"Is this the person that sent me the tapes and the picture?" he asked.
Echo shook her head. "No. This is their first communication. Security inside is very tight."
"Where is it?" he tried.
"You can't know that. You're going about this the wrong way."
"I have to take down the dollhouse!" Paul exclaimed.
"There are over twenty dollhouses in cities around the world. They have ties to every major political power on the planet. You cannot possibly stop them alone," Echo answered.
"You're going to help me?" he questioned, somewhat skeptically.
"The person that sent this message is."
"Why?" Paul asked.
"The dollhouse deals in fantasy," Echo stated. "That is their business, but that is not their purpose."
"What is?"
"We need you to find out. We'll contact you again, if possible with the same body. But you have to let the dollhouse win, make them back off. You have to trust me."