Dampyr #69 (2006) pages 79-80: The unbroken thread

Who is trying to kill Guerrero the reporter, and how is it all connected to the 1973 Chilean coup?

(Guerrero) “But who? I don't know anything. Maybe Alan Rogers?’

(Baldwyn) “He died too, but from cancer, about fifteen years ago. We know the identity of the one who freed you. It was Patricio Sandri.”

“The policeman? He was with me at La Moneda, that September 11th.” (The day of the coup, as depicted at the beginning of this issue.)

(Harlan) “Sandri was playing both sides of the fence, a game that worked for him until yesterday, when the Condor's killers found him.” (Erwin Rogers assassinated Sandri earlier in this issue, before he could talk to Kurjak.)

“The Condor?”

“Do you really not know anything about him, Guerrero?”

“I know as much about Operation Condor as everyone else, nothing more.”

(Tesla) “Both you and the mysterious killer are tied to him. He is the only unbroken thread that connects everyone to those events. Yet you say you know nothing.”

“He sounds sincere. It could be that both we and the Condor have been hunting the wrong man.”

(Harlan) “Perhaps we're wrong, Baldwyn. But not the Condor. Ernesto Guerrero knows something he doesn't realize, and we have to make sure he remembers what it is.”

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While that conversation continues in the back of an RV, Kurjak and Teresa Lopez sit in the cab during the drive:

(Teresa) “We're almost at Vina del Mar.” (“Vineyard of the Sea,” a coastal city 76 miles from Santiago)

(Kurjak) “Getting jumpy, Detective Perez?”

“Get used to calling me Teresa, dear Emil.”

“Oh, right. We have to seem like a couple on a pleasure trip, with our happy little family back in the camper.”

“If we hit a carabinero roadblock, the pretense wouldn't last a single minute, of course. But Baldwyn was right when he said they wouldn't expose themselves like that. If someone is keeping an eye on us, they're doing it discreetly.”

“More than discreetly, I'd say. I don't get the impression that anyone is following us.”

“Your impression is irrelevant, Emil. Only firm facts matter.”