Eventually, Valentin reveals he and Anna were once been good friends at the training academy. However, he wanted more than friendship, so he tried to kiss her on her birthday. He confesses that her rejection drove him to sell his skills to the highest bidder to fund numerous surgeries to correct his deformities. She recalls Valentin used the name Ivan Theodore at the time and reaches out to her contacts at the WSB. They send a file, but it suddenly vanishes off her computer as she tries to read it. Anna calls Robert and asks him to track down Carl Browning, a man who'd trained with her and Valentin at the WSB.