Lippy

From age 5-13 Sandra used to watch TV with the sound off because she wanted to learn how to read lips. At night she'd sneak her dad's opera glasses from his bureau. She could see the drive-in theater out the upstairs window if she used them. She'd watch the men in the neighborhood stand about from her porch for the same reason, catching all the words she didn't understand. And when they got a VCR she'd watch each tape twice, rewinding it with the sound off to catch the lipspeak.

After graduation Sandra decided to join the FBI. To gain experience, and to study firsthand the criminal mind, she became a corrections officer at a maximum security facility. She used her abilities to spy on the prisoners' conversations in the yard. Two years later she started at the academy in Langley.