"Watson!" Secretary General Barry Evans of the Lyon Interpol Headquarters bellowed as agent Nicholas Watson was passing by his office.
Watson peaked his head inside his chief's office. "Sir?"
"Come in," he gestured with his hand. "Close the door." And Watson did as he was told.
Evans rose from his chair and walked around his desk, stopping to lean on the corner of it.
"Agent Lambert's daughter..." he started as Watson listened in. "How was she when you gave her the news?" Watson blinked.
"She was sad, sir," he replied. "As anyone would be when told that your father died."
"Of course." He looked pensive.
'Sir?"
"This report just came in from the office of Director Kovalev of the FSB." He passed the files to Watson who opened it and scanned the pages. "Two FSB special agents were shot dead in agent Lambert's apartment in Moscow last night," he stated, and Watson blinked in surprise. "She had been staying there for the last two days," he added, and Watson stared at him.
"Is she a suspect?" he asked incredulously.
"Not likely," his chief replied. "But they do believe she was involved."
"Involved?" Watson retorted. "What were the agents doing there in the first place?" he asked curiously, and Evans shrugged.
"Who knows. Visiting her? Checking on her?", he simply answered. "Doesn't matter anyway. They're dead now, and she's missing."
"Missing," Watson repeated. "You think maybe she's unstable? Blaming the FSB for her father's death?"
"Probably," he replied. "But murdering special agents?" he added. "Just seems unlikely."
"So, what's the FSB making of all of this?"
"That's the thing," Evans said. "They don't know what to make of it. That's why they came to us."
"And what are we doing about it?" he pressed on, growing more and more curious about all this.
"Well," the chief started. "Are you familiar with the name Yuri Gretkov?" he asked Watson who nodded briefly.
"Sure," he simply answered. "Everyone is. He was involved in the whole Jason Bourne disaster. We've all been following that case," and Evans nodded.
"Right. Well, I wouldn't be surprised if he was somehow involved with this," he explained.
"That would make sense," Watson agreed. Barry Evans was experienced, and very intelligent. He usually came up with very good theories all the time. "And what... those two agents would have had something on him so he had them assassinated? He's already in jail. What could he possibly do more from behind bars?" and Evans lifted his index finger.
"Ah, don't underestimate a greedy Russian capitalist, Watson." He rose from his leaning position on the desk and walked toward the window, crossing his arms on his chest as he glanced outside. "He probably still has men working for him outside the prison. Hell, he probably has men working for him inside the prison," he explained. "Maybe he was in the middle of another heist, perhaps involving the FSB, and those two agents were working for him."
"Double agents," Watson added. "That's a good theory, sir," he agreed. "So, who would murder them? Other FSB agents who discovered the heist?"
"Hm... I think we would have heard something by now if that were the case," he replied pensively. "I think maybe someone could be out to get Gretkov. Trying to expose him, so to speak."
"How?"
"The girl, Lambert's daughter. She was staying there, in that apartment where the agents were found."
"Right," Watson said, listening carefully.
"She was in possession of something, or was aware of some kind of information... Her father was killed, but he relayed what he knew to his daughter. And they found out, so they set out to kill her."
"Sure."
"And then someone came along and helped her," he concluded. "Someone very experienced," he clarified.
"A rogue FSB agent? Or CIA? Holy shit, could be Jason Bourne!" And the chief actually chuckled.
"Not likely," he retorted. "But that would be... interesting," he said as an afterthought, and Watson chucked as well. "The FSB mentions in the report that they might have a rogue themselves, a double FSB agent gone haywire," he continued. "He's known only as Kirill."
"That name sounds familiar..." Watson said pensively.
"It should," Evans replied. "He worked for Gretkov during the CIA heist. He's the assassin who was sent to India to terminate Jason Bourne but killed Bourne's girlfriend instead," he explained. "Kirill was critically injured after a high speed car chase with Bourne in Moscow, but he escaped the hospital and hasn't been seen since."
"All right. So we assume that he's the one who's helping Lambert's daughter," Watson added to his chief's theory. "Why?"
"Good question," Evans simply replied. "That's what I need you to find out," he continued with a lopsided grin, and Watson grunted.
"I was afraid of that," he murmured, and Evans chuckled again. "I'll get on it right away, chief," he assured him.
"Good," Evans simply replied as Watson left his office.
