The hum of the server room was the only thing louder than the rain battering the rooftop. Ha-yoon sat in the dark, her face illuminated by the harsh blue glow of three monitors. On the screen, a grainy video file buffered: Cold Eyes 2013 BRRip 480p x264 AAC - V...

As the "Cold Eyes" of the movie tracked their fictional targets on screen, Ha-yoon tracked the real ones. She synced the coordinates to the tactical team’s headsets. "Target confirmed," the radio crackled. "Moving in."

The villains had used a popular movie rip to hide their rendezvous points, knowing it would blend into the millions of gigabytes of pirated content moving across the web. They thought a 480p file was too low-quality for anyone to scrutinize.

She wasn’t looking for the movie. She was looking for what was hidden inside it.

Ha-yoon leaned back, watching the progress bars of the GPS trackers flicker across her screen. Sometimes, to catch a ghost, you have to look exactly where everyone else is looking—but with much colder eyes.