Half of the picture is: "Where's Jack?"

Which is another trigger.

Jack stopped answering emails weeks before I started on a rampage to "find him," on the assumption that he was in CAlifornia. 9.

I jumped to the illogical conclusion that a guy at STarbucks looked like him. 9.9. This would be the General. But the names were wrong, of course.

From there, I just kept looking for Jack. 9.