Franklin almost deleted it. Chosen? Sounded like cult talk. But the garage referenced was a high-end lockup he’d cased for Devin Weston once. Curiosity got the better of him.

The mission wasn’t a repo. It was a rescue.

The escape was chaos. A Merryweather gunship locked on. KITT announced, “Deploying ‘Retro Rocket.’” A single, comically small rocket fired from the rear bumper, flew backward, and blew the helicopter’s tail rotor clean off. It spun away harmlessly into the ocean.