"Ballad spent the next half hour trying to locate Eagleton, but she found nothing. No driver's license, no recent arrests. The last known record of him had been the FI card Farmer had filled out. He had stopped Eagleton and questioned him when he was seen loitering around the Metro entrance on Hollywood Boulevard near Vine. In the blank marked "Occupation" Farmer had written "panhandler." There were now no indications as to whether Eagleton was alive or dead, only that he had gone completely off the electronic grid"