Note: Sorry, I intended to get this part up last night. Better late than never.


Ray Smith turned away from the counter where he was working with Joyce and Bert Sandberg. This was the third time someone was in his store this week. Jose must be stepping up his operation or he was spending the money on another high priced girl from the clubs instead of his Maria. The inventory of Mary Sunshine's was getting overwhelming. He reached up on a shelf and took down an antique cookie jar. He opened it and looked inside, the money was all there. As he turned around to give the jar to the couple, he spotted Jai holding the doll.

"Here you go." Ray told the Sandbergs handing them the jar and trying not to look at Jai. "It will be just what you're daughter was looking for."

Joyce took the jar from Ray and smiled approvingly at her husband. They walked out the door passing Jai on his way to the counter.

"May I help you?" Ray asked Jai.

"Actually, I'd like what was in that cookie jar….or what was in a doll like this." Jai answered plunking the doll on the counter.

"I thought you'd never come…." Ray sighed with relief.


"Aren't you going to get someone into get Annie?" Henry asked, sounding as concerned as he could with his over inflated ego. He warned Arthur about sending her back into the field too soon.

"Annie…pick up…." Auggie said as he called her with the speakerphone still on.

Right on cue she picked up the phone. "I'm here…" she said breathlessly.

"Where are you?"

"In a closet, there's about 7 or 8 men, they sound Iranian, I can't make out what they're saying. They're filling the baby powder containers with some sort of salt like substance." She whispered for full effect.

"Stay put, we'll get you out of there."


Joyce and Bert Sandberg were ushered into the back of the black and white police car, while Jai leaned on the door jam of the antique store. Arthur made the right call. Mr. Smith didn't like his brother-in-law all that much and he didn't like that Redondo was having numerous affairs on his baby sister. He was only too happy to help them shut down Redondo's operation. Jai needed to call WITSEC to get the ball rolling.

Jai sighed, while he was growing up, he believed in his father and everything he did. Now, under Arthur's leadership he understood that the careful, thoughtful maneuvering was much more important than a black op.

"Hey Auggie…" Jai said calling into the DPD.


"Jai, are you under control there?" Auggie sounded rushed.

Jai wondered what was going on, "Yeah, got Smith to talk. He wants nothing to do with his brother-in-law and he doesn't want Maria, his sister to have anything to do with him either. My next call is to WITSEC and I'll get a couple of marshals out here to pick him up. From what he's told me, we should have enough on Redondo's operation to shut it down within a week."

"That's fantastic." Joan said smiling. They had gotten lucky; Jai had everything under control there. Now they needed to finish the other part of the plan.

"Hey, gotta go." Auggie disconnected the line and switched back to Annie.

"Annie, you still there."

"Yes" She whispered into the phone. "Hang on…."

The sound of a door opening and men talking loudly filled Auggie's office. "Auggie!" Annie screamed into the phone as the line went dead again.

Auggie frantically dialed the phone again, but she didn't pick up. Then he dialed another line.

"Joe isn't picking up either." Auggie sighed.

"He's our gardener." Joan explained to Arthur.

"This is not good.." Arthur thought out loud.

"Not good?" Henry was dumbfounded by Arthur's oversimplification of the situation. "You probably just got one of your agents killed."

"Henry, Redondo is done. We don't need your input anymore." Arthur told him opening the door to Auggie's office. Arthur turned to the group of agents that had been standing in the back of the office observing the operations. He singled one out, "Jack, would you please make sure Mr. Wilcox finds the exit?"

Jack looked up surprised, he really didn't want to be the one escorting Henry out of the building.

"You asked me here."

"And now I'm asking you to not be here. We have more important things to do besides listen to you question my judgment. Good bye Henry."

Henry shot an evil look at Joan and then Arthur before storming out of the office with Jack close behind him. He wasn't done with them.

"I thought he'd never leave." Auggie said while continuing to work at his computer.


" Mr. Campbell was hoping you might have some time for him first thing tomorrow morning."

Maybe Henry was right about Arthur, Liza thought before answering, maybe he is just an incompetent politician in the wrong job. "Is this to refute another story? If so, tell him thanks, but no thanks."

"Mr. Campbell thought you might say that, he asked that you come and see him and then draw your own conclusion."

'That's awful vague." Liza was both disgusted and intrigued with the thought of Arthur wanting to meet with her again.

"We're the CIA, Miss Hearn. Vague is what we do." Julie replied sweetly. "Shall we expect you at 8 am tomorrow?"

Liza took a deep breath; there was no way she could not go to this meeting. "Yes, tell Arthur I'll be there."


"Auggie, get Perkins and Nelson back to the hotel." Joan told Auggie.

Auggie nodded in understanding and dialed the phone.

"He has this under control." Joan told the audience of agents that had been observing the operation from the back of the office. "Let's give him some peace while he takes care of Annie." She said ushering them out of the office. Soon just Auggie, Arthur and Joan were remaining.

The whoosh of the sliding door told Auggie that the other agents had left the office.

"We're alone." Joan told him.

Auggie took off his headphones and turned to his boss and the DCS. "We did it."

"We did, didn't we?" Joan said, Auggie could practically hear the smile in her voice.

"Excellent job, Auggie." Arthur patted Auggie on the shoulder.

"Now we only have to hope he took the bait." Auggie surmised.

"Oh, he did." Arthur answered smiling, "He's already on the phone to Liza."


The peace and quiet of the back seat of his town car did nothing to quell the rage building inside Henry. He couldn't believe what he had just witnessed. Arthur had made mistake after mistake, on two different operations. And he loaned a tech op to the FBI leaving that cripple in charge of those important operations including Jai's. He reached for his cell phone and began to dial, and then he looked down in surprise. In his anger, he had almost used his own phone to call Liza instead of his burn phone. He grabbed the burn phone from the pocket behind the passenger seat.

"We have to meet. Now." He growled into the phone. "Same place."


Hope you enjoyed this part. Thanks for reading.

-M