"Sergei, what's going on?" Bogdan asked as Agent Carter brought a retinal scanner to Ethan's face.
"It's okay Bogdan." I told him reassuringly.
"I don't mean to bring up the big elephant in the room, but what's with the big, hairy Russian." Benji asked from the front of the moving van.
"Who Bogdan?" Ethan asked.
Agent confirmed. The retinal scanner said.
"He fed me intel, if I left him there, they would have killed him. So we're going to give him his freedom." Ethan finished.
"Did you call in the sweepers, Benji?" I asked him.
"They're on there way." Benji responded.
"Good." I said.
"Benji," Ethan paused. "How is it you're here?"
"Oh, I passed the field exam. Crazy right?" Benji asked.
"Yeah cra-." Ethan responded but stopped when Agent Carter stuck a DNA tester in his mouth. He looked at her.
"DNA test." Carter told him.
"It's me," he said and then pointed to me. "And she's her."
"It's procedure, I'm just confirming it's you guys." Agent Carter explained softly.
"You're very thorough." Ethan told her.
"Sergei?" Bogdan asked confused. "Are you not Russian?"
"Relax…" Ethan told him.
"Sweepers approaching. Brooms are out." Benji said from the front.
"Roger that." I told Benji.
"Sergei." He paused waiting for Ethan to look at him. "Are you not Sergei?" He asked.
Ethan turned around and shot Bogdan in the throat with a dart gun. "You'll be fine." Ethan told him. "Bogdan." Ethan said and grabbed Bogdan's face. "I always take care of my friends."
"My friends." Bogdan repeated and fell backwards just as the door opened and into the arms of a couple of men in another vehicle, Bogdan was pulled into the other van. And both of the vans drove off.
"Messy bringing him along." Carter said to Ethan after we had driven off.
"I thought it went rather well." Ethan replied smoothly.
"You want to tell me what you guys were doing in a Russian prison?" She asked.
"You want to tell me why you broke us out?" He responded.
"This wasn't a rescue mission?" She asked confused.
"Ehhh, let me put it this way. If the secretary wanted us out of there, it must be pretty bad out here." He told her.
"We were after a file." Carter started. "We lost it."
"We? Who lost it you?" Ethan asked her.
She looked at us intensely and then at the floor. "Agent Hanaway."
"Where's Hanaway?" I asked her.
"I was a letter drop. Classified file. It should have been a simple intercept. We knew which train the courier was on, but there was one thing we didn't know, who the courier was. Hanaway dropped the mark and grabbed his bag. He had the file in his hands, easy in, easy out. But we weren't the only ones after it. Hanaway's lens cam drew a facial match and triggered a warning, but it was too late. It was my op, I put him in the field, and she left him just alive enough for me to see him die." She told us.
"I'm sorry." Ethan said.
Carter held up a phone with a picture of a woman to us. "You know her."
"Sabine Moreau, Contract killer." Ethan told himself more than her. "Works for diamonds." He looked up at Carter. "What's in the file?"
Agent Carter didn't say anything for a minute and she looked up at Ethan and I. Ethan urged her on silently. "Russian nuclear launch codes." She told us.
Ethan looked down in distress for a minute and I held his hand, knowing that for him this was a difficult topic. "IMF has been looking for an emerging extremist codenamed Cobalt. He's determined to detonate a nuclear weapon however he can. We know Moreau's worked with him before." He told her.
"What else does IMF know about him?" She asked.
"As much as you do now." I told her. "But if Moreau has nuclear launch codes, you can bet Cobalt's gone from person of interest to enemy number one."
"We're here." Benji told us from the front.
Ethan and I got out of the van and we went up to the phone booth. He picked up the phone and I leaned against the wall beside the phone booth.
"Why were they in prison?" Jane asked Benji.
"They disappeared. After Ethan and his wife, you know. I thought they'd just been transferred. Put on leave. There were rumors though. Talk of an unsanctioned hit.
Ethan put down the phone on the receiver and we walked away from it and stopped a few feet from it, waiting for it to self destruct. When it never came, we turned around and Ethan went up to it and hit the phone. There was a ping and some smokes and Ethan walked back to the van.
"What do you got?" Agent Carter said addressing Ethan.
Ethan paused at the door of the van. "We're going into The Kremlin."
Benji started laughing. "I thought you said 'The Kremlin'." He laughed a bit more and when no one said anything else he repeated his statement. "I thought you said 'The Kremlin'." Benji frowned again when no one said anything. "Okay."