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Jack Bauer and Vic Mackey arrive at the home of Angel Barberro. Barberro is sitting on the porch with his grandson Diego and an oxygen tank. Despite his age, Angel recognizes Jack Bauer and Vic Mackey, he knows each of their reputations.
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Angel: Well well, what brings two cops like you to my home?
Jack: We know who you are, how you and the Guerreros ran this town once.
Angel: That was a long time ago. Now I have maybe three months left to die in this place with family.
Vic: Just out of curiousity, is your grandson a Guerrero?
Angel: Don't answer that Diego. None of your damn business cops.
Jack: We were hoping you could help with our investigation.
Angel: I had to choose between being a rat, and going to prison for the rest of my life. I chose prison then. I've never been a snitch before, I'm not about to start now.
Vic: We have reason to think that the local gangs are allied with terrorists.
Angel: In my day we never would have allied with Alqueda. Some in the irish mob sent weapons to the IRA, but nothing like Alqueda.
Vic: Unfortunately it looks like the new leaders don't follow your code. It won't be long before the Guerreros accept this alliance, and young punks like your grandson will have to pay the price. Unless ofcourse you help us disrupt it today. It will be easier on Diego here in the long run.
Angel: Diego, why don't you go for a walk.
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Diego indeed left his grandfather. It was clear that, even at this late stage in his life, Angel didn't want anyone seeing him being an informant. But he also knew that Vic was right, and he should do this.
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Ishmael and his group arrive for their meeting with Ramon Salazaar. Ramon's brother Hector is also here as one of Ramon's enforcers.
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Ramon: My men have sampled the product you gave us, it's good. I wouldn't mind distributing this. But how long can you supply it, I always thought the Taliban was opposed to narcotics.
Ishmael: What remains of the Taliban has seen the logic of giving these drugs to our enemies. Destroy the americans with their own vices. We give you the drugs, your men sell them on the streets, and we split the profits 50/50.
Ramon: About that, my men will be taking the risk, some of them will go to prison.
Ishmael: And a lot of my brothers and sisters will be sacrificing their very lives.
Ramon: I will not agree to this unless we get 70% of the profits.
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Yuri Barkov was a clerk at the Russian embassy in D.C., had been since the days of the Soviet Union. At times, he and George Mason had established a back-channel, helped each other to prevent the cold war from getting too hot. Today, Yuri called George and asked him to meet him at the park. When Mason showed up Yuri was eating doughnuts, and drinking coffee. George brought some money from his discretionary fund to pay Yuri if the intel was good.
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Yuri: You want a doughnut?
Mason: Sure. But I hope you asked me to come for more than breakfast.
Yuri: I have a name, Anatoly Denisov. In the early 1980s he was a soviet scientist working on a cure for the flu, in case there was another outbreak. He was, unofficially, working on something else.
Mason: Weaponized virus?
Yuri: Treaties signed between our two governments prohibited the creation of such weapons. But we assumed you were breaking the treaties, so we broke it. Gorbachev shut down this program, for real. But after the collapse of the Soviet Union Anatoly found himself earing very poor pay, when he was payed at all. He disappeared, offering his services to the highest bidder. Iraq, Iran, Qumar. And according to Russian intelligence, he has covertly entered the U.S. I don't know who he is allied with now, but the experience and knowledge he has. If anything happens, I want your side to know we did everything we could to prevent an attack.
Mason: You were right to do that. The influenza epidemic killed over 50 million people worldwide. And that was when the world population was much smaller, when travel between continents was much harder. If it were released today, God only knows how many would die.
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