his usually mild expression was gone . `` my son is crazy about you . i had never thought i would see the day when ghosts were surrounding me like they were . once they cleared the pad , the helicopter lifted off and threw snow on them . he put some capital into my business . there 's a bunch of codes , in context they read like names but they 're just a jumble of letters and numbers . '' it was taking all my concentration to hold it up and think through my options . 