How does the consultant know that the the numbers aren't just random numbers, that they are meaningful and he ?must decrypt them?
?It seems to me that his being "distrusting"?may be ?necessary to the premise, but it is not a sufficient grounds for the audience to buy the premise.? He could be distrusting and wrong.? The audience needs to be given a logical, empirical reason to believe that his suspicion is warranted. Ditto the logline reader -- well, this one.? What is the cause-and-effect relationship between the numbers and the attacks that gives the consultant probable cause to be believe they are linked?