"Right,"Jordan said as he strapped in. He put the knife carefully into a jacket pocket. A shame that he hadn't put in a couple of the things he would usually brought to search places, but with Henry you never knew when you had to travel light.
From what Henry said, Starling had been taken under duress. But why Starling as opposed to anyone else in the Museum hierarchy? The abstraction was quick and sudden; kidnappers who could take their time would have packed a bag to give the simulation of a planned outing rather than leave things be and broadcast an extraction.
The blood on the knife would be useful in improving sympathetic connection if Jordan had to divine.