Still not mine.
Part I: David
i.
"Sinclair, we have other agents that can do this. Get your people home and rest, you aren't going to do them any good by burning out."
"All due respect, sir, they know something and I can't think of any agents as motivated to make them talk as we are."
"Point taken. They've stewed long enough to be released from hospital and they're in the holding rooms. The nurses at Cedars may have been a little⦠lax when cataloguing their injuries after they were informed of events leading to those busted knees. We have them by the balls on assault and attempted murder so don't hesitate to let them know we're their best shot. Remind me not to get on Betancourt's shit list, alright?"
"Will do."
"We're going to do everything we can to bring them home, Sinclair. That's a promise."
"Yes sir."
ii.
"So we arrive expecting a nice, simple bust. Instead, we walk right into the middle of an ambush. Care to tell me what happened there?"
"Sucks to be you, don't it? See your guys disappear and have one too stupid to keep his head down."
"Sucks a little more to be you, although considering how pissed she is you got pretty lucky that my friend didn't miss high. She's been known to do that on occasion."
"That curly haired bitch is the one that got us?"
"If you're going to run your mouth I'd make it more useful, and do it quickly. We don't have much patience, you see, and we want our guys back. You're already ours for assault, attempted murder and aiding and abetting in the abduction of two federal agents. I imagine if we dig a little we'll find more. Just a feeling, you know? Probably won't ever see the outside of a cell again barring your trial and maybe a room where they'll stick a needle in your arm if worst comes to worst."
"Look. You ain't gonna get your guys back, I can tell you that. You're chasing ghosts, these guys are real careful."
"I think you really underestimate just how little we care about your well-being at this point in time. Forensics and eyewitness testimony put you smack in the middle of a crime that's gonna get a lot of people in a lot of trouble. Your only chance is to cooperate and hope like hell that everything turns out okay. Law enforcement is a tight business and you hurt one of us, you can bet your ass it'll be like you hurt all of us."
"I got no clue why they took your guys or what they did with them and that's the truth, man. Just as confused as you are."
"Being confused doesn't change the fact that you're an accessory to whatever happens now. We didn't get them, we got you and your buddies so everything lands on you."
"Are you gonna cut me a deal if I talk?"
"You aren't in much of a position to bargain but if you help us I'll see what I can do."
"Can't give you much, they just wanted hired guns and that's where we came in. Didn't have any contact with them myself until the day. We were there as security."
"Descriptions?"
"I only met the introducer, a guy called Mario. Italian or Greek, short, bald. Silver tooth. Creepy bastard if you ask me but they pay well."
iii.
"Anything?"
"Sketch artist's in there with him now, we might get a lead but I'm not too hopeful. Hired muscle from what I can gather. Apparently he and the others were brought in by an introducer called Mario, they thought they were just running interference for a smuggling operation that they thought might have been compromised. Five thousand on agreement, another five on completion."
"Smuggling what?"
"Doesn't know specifics but he thinks it might be women, children, some foreigners. Purely speculation, there weren't any goods or people when they arrived. They weren't even properly in position by the time we arrived and everything went to hell."
"That doesn't make sense, from what you said they were all armed and ready for war. Not just the security guys. Why take Edgerton and Eppes if it was just people smuggling? They target people who won't be missed, and particular demographics to specific orders. FBI agents are neither."
"I don't know, sir, and I don't think he does either."
So the bunny bit me at work again yesterday and considering all the others are pretty much exclusively non-dialogue, a few thousand words of nothing but might help clear some things up. All four parts are done but I'll post them separately to keep the suspense building because I'm just fun like that!
