Secrets 10
There is men stacking a Sea Can. A guy bumps it onto another one. A guy in the ground yells in Finnish, "Careful, you idiot! This thing is live!" Inside is a timer that says seventy two hours, fifty eight minutes, and fifty two seconds lefts.
TECHIES AND TECHNOLOGY
"Can I please get some help?" A costumer lady asks.
"Four, three, two, one, bingo." Dez says looking down at his watch. He jumps over the counter. "Sorry, I'm on a break." Des walks over to Austin. "Good, news my friend, I am free this evening for a meal. Thinking about a little surf and turf, right? Half meatball, half tuna sub. Then boom! Call of Duty 4, Mordern Warfare."
"Uh."
"Me and you. Sniper on my back watching me."
"I would love to but i have plans tonight."
"Don't sweat it. Me, too, slammed. What are you and the lady doing?"
"Uh, actually, the lady and I are no mas. It's over."
"Ah, I knew this would happen. Dude, I'm sorry. Damn it! Women can be so know, as a matter of fact, I'm the one who did the breaking up. She just wasn't the right girl for me."
"Right girl? Are you out of your mind, dude? She is the hottest piece you're ever gonna get!"
"I didn't really see a future for Ally and I, ultimately and so I did;t want to waste any more time."
Suddenly Ally walks into T and T. She aims for the HTR (Home Theatre Room). Dez says, "Beg for her back, Austin. Go." Austin goes to the HTR.
"Look, Austin, I've been thinking about our break up, and I'm not so sure it's the best idea."
"Miss me already, huh?"
"Well, for the cover, it makes things easier."
"Well, then I guess your job's gonna be a little bit harder."
"Look, I'm sorry if you thought there was something between us. It's very common in these situations to perceive a connection that isn't there."
"Of course. I get it. It's the old story, you know? Guy gets super computer in his brain, beautiful CIA agent is sent to protect him, and then she tells him, while under the spell of truth serum, that she's not interested. I get it. But for me the emotional roller coaster is a little much, so i think I'd rather find something a little less common, like a real relationship."
"Okay, Austin, well, if that's what you want, then I'm gonna have to sell it." Ally starts crying.
"You okay?" Austin asks. Ally turns around and walks out. "Ally?" Austin follows.
"Heartbreaker." Jeff says watching from the Nerd Herd desk.
"Dream maker." Lester says.
"Love taker."
"Don't you mess around with Austin." (LOL Heartbreaker) Austin starts walking away.
"Where are you going?" Dez runs up to Austin. "Don't run from me, all right? We need to talk about our emotions and all that crap. I'm sorry, buddy. You're gonna have to weep without me, I got a date."
"Get out of here. Already? Good for you hot shot." They do there what-up hand shake. "With who?"
"Just someone I met. Makes sandwiches. Deli owner."
"Okay, hold on a second. A pro?" Austin walks away and goes over to the Lou's shop.
"Who ordered the caracole?" Lou asks on the other side of the counter and waves at Austin and he waves back.
Ally is at Trish's. Trish puts a photo of Lou up on the wall with her name under it. Lou Palone. Beckman says through the computer, "I don't like the idea of this break up at all. What the hell happened?"
"She got dumped." Trish says.
"We decided that it would be best for Austin to date a civilian. It will help secure his cover in the event that someone IDs me." Ally explains.
"Yeah, because she got dumped."
"Let me get this straight. Some woman comes in off the street and starts dating the asset, and this doesn't strike either of you suspicious." Beckman says.
"It's not completely unfeasible." Ally says. "He is a reasonably charming guy."
"I've heard enough. I want to know everything about this woman before she gets too close."
Austin and Lou are making out in his car. Austin says, "Wait, wait." Austin rolls down the window both gasping for air. "Wow, it's, uh, it's been a while since I've done that."
"Me, too." Lou laughs. "I think I tweaked my neck."
"Well, it, uh, it wouldn't be an official Austin Moon date if the woman didn't leave injured in some way."
"Oh." They continue kissing again. "And I don't… usually do this on first dates, but you want to come inside?"
"Yeah."
"I'm about to make you a very happy man."
"Oh, my God, you're so good." Austin says chewing on his sandwich that Lou just made for him. (LOL YOU DIRTY MINDED PEOPLE) "That is so amazing. Wow!"
Lou smiles, "Do you really like it?" She goes to sit on his lap.
"Like it? Yeah, I like it. I love it." Austin turns her head and flashes on a poster.
"What's wrong? You don't like it? It's the chopped liver, isn't it?"
"Huh? What?No, no, I… No, it's amazing. It's amazing. You're… you're amazing. What's is that?" Austin points towards the poster on the wall.
"What?"
"The invite thing?"
"Oh, it's nothing." Lou gets up and grabs it. "Some invitation for a party at, uh…Club Ares." She throws it in the garbage.
"Who's Stavros Demetrios?"
"My ex. He owns the place. Why, do you know him?"
"No, not really, no."
"Good, you don't want to. He thought I was dating some guy and he trashed his car. Threatened to kill him. Believe me, the last thing you want is that lunatic swimming around in your head."
Austin, Ally, and Trish are at a debriefing at Trish's apartment. Beckman says, "Stavros Demetrios, a handsome playboy, owns and operates a number of LA clubs." Beckman pulls up his picture of him.
"I don't think he's that handsome."Austin says.
"He's the son of Yari Demetrios, the shipping magnate." Beckman pulls up a picture of Yari.
"What do you mean by playboy? What kind of intel do we have on that?"
"What we have is information that a volatile package is coming to Los Angeles. The cargo itself is time-sensitive, which, knowing the Demetrios family ties to the Middle East, could mean a weapon."
Ally says, "Austin, we need you to get as close to Stavros as possible and see if you flash on anything related to the shipment."
"What? What? You want me to get close to my girlfriend's ex?" Austin asks. "How do you want me to do that? Plus, i don't want to get her involved in all this."
"Why don't you and your girlfriend hit club Ares tonight?" Trish asks. "I hear it's supposed to be all the rage."
Ally is cooking hot dogs when she spots Lou outside the window, "Hey, Lou!" She calls. Lou enters the Weirnerlicous. "Hi."
"Hi? Nice to see you again."
"You know, he's a great guy."
"Yeah, um, I've had the same opinion so far, too."
"It's not an opinion, it's a fact." Lou raises her eyebrows. "Don't hurt him."
"Okay. Wasn't planning on it." Lou laughs. "Thanks for the heads up, though." Lou walks out of the building and heads to T and T. Austin turns his head to see Lou walk in. "Hey. I brought you a sandwich." Austin takes it and smiles.
"Thanks."
"So, I just had a talk with your ex."
"Yeah, she's a little overprotected."
"Yeah, I see that."
"So, speaking of exs, I was thinking maybe we could go to that party thing at Ares tonight."
"You know? Trust me, bad plan."
"Look, sooner or later he's gonna find out about me, and I rather just… make the peace now."
"Charming, handsome, and brave. You know, that's a combination I'm not used to."
Austin smiles, "Yeah, it's a little… little new for me too."
Later that night Austin is looking at himself in a mirror at Trish's. Austin sigh, "We're already on our second official date and I'm already lying to her."
"Relax." Trish says. "it's dating in LA. Everyone lies. We're going to be taped into the club's surveillance feed. All we need is the audio."
Ally walks up to Austin and hands him a mic, "This has a RK-7 mini mic that works up to 20 feet. " The mic is disguised as a mini guitar. "I want you to keep it as close to Stavros as possible."
Austin takes it out of Ally's hand. "Are you kidding me with this?I can't wear this. This looks ridiculous."
"The alternative is we join you on your date." Trish says.
"Fine." Austin clips it to his jacket.
"Ear wig." Ally says.
"It never stops with you people, does it?" Austin puts it on his ear.
Trish comes up to Austin holding a rose, "Aren't you forgetting something, Romeo?"
"Oh. Of course. Let me guess. This is equipped with some kind of microscopic, infrared tracking device that determines her mother's Communist affiliations?"
"No idiot. It's so you can get laid." Ally roles her eyes.
Austin and Lou arrive in the building. "i usually get more respect at the door." Austin says. "You know I come here a lot. Normally, it's here on Monday's, on Monday nights, and then Tuesdays at Hyde. I'm on the circuit. You know, I do my thing."
Lou smiles, "I can't hear a word that you're saying!"
"What was that?"
"I love this song. Do you want to dance?"
"No. I normally require some social lubricant before entering a dance floor."
Suddenly Stavros comes up to them, "Hello, sweetheart."
"Stavros." Lou says. "Uh, this is Austin. Austin, Stavros."
"Hi." Austin says.
"Cool pin." Starves says."I'd have worn mine, but I left it in the '80s."
They both laugh, "I kept mine."
"Let me buy you two a drink."
"No thanks." Lou grabs Austin's hand and starts walking away.
"Uh…"
Austin hears Trish over the ear piece, "Have the drink, Austin."
"Yeah, maybe… maybe just one."
"Good. VIP on me." They order and pour drinks. "That's aged ten years in oak. Can you taste it, Mason?"
Austin coughs, "Austin and yeah, I think i taste it although that could have been a piece of my liver."
"I love this guy!" He laughs.
"Hes a charmer." Lou says.
"Hey, you." Austin looks over at Lou.
"Hey."
"Can I get you something, anything? Can I get some more wine?" Lou holds up a glass of wine she's been holding.
"Oh, don't do that Reaton." Stavros says. "You don't want to get on her bad side. Fiery Italian."
"Stavros..." Lou says.
"What? You think I'm going to tell him about the trip to Mykonos where you threw a lamp at my head? Still have the scar." He shows the scar on his arm.
Austin says, "I thought you said she threw it at your head."
"She did. The scar is from the make-up sex. She's a tiger." He growls.
Trish speaks in through the ear piece, "Get on with it, Austin."
Austin clears his throat, "Um, so Stavros, Uh, you're in the , uh, you're in the club game?"
"Don't worry about it." Stavros says. "You see, nervous. Relax."
"I'm not."
"You got a small neck, huh?"
"Like a chicken."
"He actually has a nice size of a neck." Ally says through the mic forgetting Austin can hear her. Austin coughs. Ally turns off her mic, "Maybe I should go in."
Trish says, "Same bit with you, huh?"
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"You need me to spell it out? Fine. You fall for the guys you work with. First Bryce, now our boy Austin."
"Bryce was a mistake, and I haven't fallen for Austin."
"Yeah, whatever you say." Trish laughs. "And just so we're clear, sister, not my type of nerd."
"Have you ever snapped a chickens neck, Austin?" Stavros asks.
"Can't say that I have." Austin says.
"It's much easier than you would think."
Ally takes off her headphones, "That's it, I'm going in."
"Hey, no. Hey!" Trish yells but Ally jumps out of the van. "Dawson!"
"Austin?" Lou asks. "Isn't that your ex-girlfriend?"
"Yes it is. Yes. Sorry, uh, she's having a hard time letting go. It's happened to me before. A lot actually. I don't... You know, I better go talk to her. I'll be right back. I'm so sorry." Austin gets up form his seat. "Hey, what are you doing here?"
Ally puts her hand on his shoulder, "I wanted to make sure you're okay."
"I'm on a... I'm on a date, okay? Just, you're ruining it right now!" Ally looks at Lou and she gets up and walks away. "I'm fine! I'm fine! Just... Just go!"
"Okay, fine. But your girlfriend is leaving." Austin then around and heads to her.
"Hey, where you going?"
"You've spend the entire night either with my ex or yours. This date is over, okay? I'm out of here."
"Lou, wait. No, no. Lou? Don't go! Don't go!" Austin sees a man across the club and flashes on him. Austin speaks in his mic, "Trish? Trish? Stavros' father Yari just walked in!"
"I got it. He's heading towards his son. Get the mic closer. I need to hear what they're saying." Trish says. Austin looks back at Lou and groans. He turns to the VIO section when the guard wouldn't let him in.
"Seriously? I was just in there two seconds ago."
"Okay, Austin, this is it. Get the mic closer." Austin sees a waitress walk by entering the VIP section and throws the mic in the drink.
"Okay, I was over there, so I'm going to..." Austin turns around. The waitress sets the drinks in the table.
"Thank you." Stavros says. "4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, San Pedro. The package is time sensitive, so, if it expires, we're all dead."
"Got ya." Trish says. Austin runs out of the club and sees her ride off in a cab.
"Great." Austin says.
Trish drives up in the van in front of Austin. Ally says, "Nice work, Austin. We know when and where the package is coming. Mission accomplished."
"How was the date?" Trish asks.
"Is it me, or does our government never want me to have sex again?"
"Austin Moon. Second message. Look, I totally screwed up, okay? I'm more than comfortable blaming it on the alcohol, or global warming or my obscure allergy to neon..." Austin looks up to see Trish. "But, hey, hopefully, I'll-I'll talk to you soon..Okay. Thanks. Buh-Bye." Austin closes his phone. "Damn it. You made me give her a buh-bye."
"She won't talk to you?" Trish asks. "You want us to cut her power, smoke her out?"
"Wow, that's very romantic. Why don't you just club her over the head and drag her out by her foot? Look, I'll handle this one without the NSA, thank you."
"You did a good job last night. We're going down to the docks in a few hours to intercept the package."
"You need me to go?"
"Yeah, if crap hits the fan, we could use you, Chicken Neck." Trish walks away. Austin calls Lou again.
"I realize that this is dangerously close to bordering on stalker status, but, uh, look, I don't really care about that. Look maybe you're calling me right now. I don't know. Maybe I should hand up and just give you the chance to..." Austin looks up to see Ally stop in front of him. "So if you get a sec, you can call me back. Okay, buh-bye." Austin hangs up the phone.
"Won't call you back?" Ally says.
"I think her voicemail is broken. It's very common."
"I wanted to apologize for last night. I suppose I jumped to the gun a little, and I didn't mean to interfere with your date."
"Yeah. Not sure of o qualifies as a date when you're bugged with CIA microphones and infiltrating an arms importer, but, hey, I'm new at this."
"Well, it's hard to have a real relationship in this line of work."
"Apparently it's hard to have a fake one as well."
"Well, of its any conciliation, I never felt like our time together was work." Ally smiles and turns around. "Oh, Gerber daisies. Lou's favorite."
"How do you know that?"
"CIA. I had them check deliveries to her addresses from the last five years."
"Good tip."
Austin goes to the flower shop and ordered her flowers. He goes to her sandwich shop. "Lou can I please talk to you." She turns around. "One second."
"I'm busy." Lou said. There had got to be at least thirty or fourth people in the shop right now. "Who had he Parma prosciutto? There you go. 27?" Austin goes over to her. "You want to talk, get a number like everyone else."
"Who's got 28?" A man asks. Austin grabs a number. He has B44. Austin goes and finds a seat and waits.
Ally, Trish, and a whole ground of other Agents come along with guns in hand at the sea cans. Trish yells, "Federal Agent! Down on the ground! Get the bomb squad in here." The men pull him to the ground.