Her cover story was that she worked from home doing medical billing. It was always easier to set up a fake identity for a person who 'worked from home.' First of all, it was reasonable. A lot of people telecommuted or owned their own consulting businesses nowadays. Secondly, this meant that no physical jobsite or coworkers had to be dreamed up and accounted for. Simple! However, Cristal quickly found out that living out this piece of her cover story was going to be significantly more difficult in practice than in theory. She was used to being busy, having a purpose. Even though stakeouts could be long and tedious to say the least, there was a specific reason to be there. She wasn't just sitting around. She was sitting around and watching for something to happen. In stakeouts, she might be doing nothing while she waited, but at least she was actively doing nothing. One high point of the day was that she had successfully avoided seeing Dominic that morning.
