"Her mother had her placed into witness protection when she was young, nobody knows where she came from or who she really is," Martha said. These were things Jack already knew, but if she was speaking on the record now, she was going to do it right.

"But someone leaked the information about your relationship to her. I don't know who, we're still tracking them down. But whoever it was passed it on, and she's been targeted."

Martha bit her lip. "Jack, she's been taken by beings we've never seen before. They say they're willing to negotiate, but they want to negotiate with you. The oldest resident of Earth."