Alex is not a follower, so despite his closeness to them, he is not one of them, and must not be told of their world.

Tulip Jones (also referred to as Mrs Jones) arrives at the Headquarters of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The two first met while working as ball boys/girls at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships and they quickly became good friends. She confirms that she, William, and all the others are related, as one family, living and dying for one another; she expresses no memory of her biological family.Eight years before the start of Stormbreaker, she came to Britain to study for law school and was a law student trying to be a lawyer. Alexander "Alex" Rider is a title character and the protagonist of the Alex Rider novel series by British author Anthony Horowitz. Brother Mike and Sister Jeanne are in the process being discovered, and Royce reveals that Owen Andrews has been sent to Costa Rica on holiday, but has been arrested for drug offences, in a Batman suit, and faces ten years in prison.

Crawley is there, and escorts them to a conference room, where they find a metal box, a portable RF inhibitor, capable of jamming all communication within sixty metres. Afterwards, Crawley meets with Mrs Jones, says that Redwing is in charge of giving Andrews, and Royce by extension, false information to placate him, and shows a photograph of the girl assassin. Back in England, Blunt is retiring from the scandal in Crocodile Tears and will leave his job to Mrs.Alex worries that twenty-five children, including Frederick and the Jones siblings, have been kidnapped by Nightshade. Alex is adopted by Edward Pleasure, Sabina Pleasure's father, who is confident Alex will get better with his family. The Shard is almost as tall as the 310m gap Brother Mike had mentioned, and the parachuting target represented the cathedral and its dome, The Golden Gallery. She shows great concern for Alex's situation – often protesting that he is not to be used again, but all the while admitting that he is useful to MI6.