"Of all the stupid, boneheaded, witless..." For the third time since the day had begun, Inspector Carmelita was mercilessly berating one of the security guards. The first guard she'd berated had shown up at the museum that morning so drunk that he'd walked straight into a ladder that was being used by a technician who was in the process of fixing a broken security camera, and of course had knocked the ladder over. The technician was miraculously uninjured, but the camera was damaged by the tool the technician had been using at that moment, and was now beyond repair. The second guard had been found asleep at his post, and the reason why he had been berated should be quite obvious.However, this guard had done something that topped the other two guards when it came to the "stupidity" department. THIS guard had tripped one of the security systems while that system was in the process of being calibrated. As a result, the whole process of bringing that particular security system online had to be started all over again... and the technicians who were responsible for that process had left a few minutes ago.
So why was the Inspector berating the guard instead of getting the technicians to come back and work on that security system? Well... the reason was that she couldn't do that without breaking the law. Yes, that's right... she couldn't order them to return to work because of the fact they belonged to a labor union! Now Carmelita didn't have anything against labor unions... it's just that one of the rules in regard to the members of the labor union was that once union members went off-duty, they couldn't be forced to come back for another 12 hours. Making matters even worse, the Cat's Eye was supposed to be available for public viewing in less than 2 hours!
"If you do something like this again..." Carmelita abruptly broke off from her tongue-lashing of the guard and stalked away down the nearest corridor."Could anything else possibly go wrong?" As Carmelita thought this to herself, steel bars suddenly crashed down behind her and directly in front of her. Yes, something else could and HAD gone wrong... like some IDIOT turning on a security system that was only supposed to be active during the nighttime! Carmelita thought to herself: "When I find out who the idiot who turned this security system on is, they better hope they've got a good health insurance plan... and perhaps a written last will and testament..."
Sly was on the second floor of the museum at that very moment, and snapped a picture of the Inspector and the security system from the with the Mini-Cam through a ventilation duct. The Mini-Cam was a gadget that Bentley had thought up and created after he'd looked over a map of the museum on the Internet, which he had combined with information on the layout of the museum that had been obtained from other sources. When put together, the information had shown that attempting to get recon photos the same way Sly had when the Cooper Gang had gone after the Klaww Gang would end up accomplishing only one thing: a one-way trip to the nearest jail cell. In other words, Sly wouldn't have been able to get close enough to take photos with the Binocu-Com without being spotted by somebody.
As such, Bentley had created the Mini-Cam, a miniature camera which had a wireless connection to the Binocu-Com, and also upgraded the Binocu-Com so it could both receive pictures from the Mini-Cam and be used to send instructions to the Mini-Cam. Still, there were a few downsides to the Mini-Cam... like the fact that it didn't give Sly the same thrill as taking recon photos with the Binocu-Com did. There's not too much of a challenge when the only thing you're risking isn't yourself. At least that's what Sly's opinion was... Bentley had the opposite opinion when it came to that matter.
"That's definitely one for the scrapbook... perhaps I'll send a duplicate of it to the Inspector after this job is over." "Sly, you said you were going out to do some RECON... not to take pictures of Inspector Fox." "Lighten up, Bentley... besides that's another piece of security we know about now." "True... but we don't know anything about the security directly around the Cat's Eye, and from the looks of it, that particular system wasn't supposed to be active right now! That means there could be other security systems that we won't be able to detect currently. I'd suggest that we don't attempt to pull off the heist tonight. We'll need to spend tonight finding out about the other security systems that aren't active during the daytime." "No argument here. It's funny to see Inspector Carmelita behind bars, but I don't fancy the same happening to me." "Especially considering that your stay behind bars would be a lot longer." With that, the conversation between the two ended.
Sly was about to use the Binocu-Com to retrieve the Mini-Cam when he saw that a security guard had just noticed the Inspector... and apparently was telling her something. A moment later, Carmelita ended up hitting the roof... figuratively speaking. That combined with the fact that the guard left very quickly a few moments later, it was quite obvious that the guard had no idea how to deactivate the security system. The expression on her face was too good for Sly to pass up... so he snapped a few more photos of the Inspector before he retrieved the Mini-Cam. "Now THOSE are definitely ones for the scrapbook... my personal scrapbook." What Sly meant by that isn't really that important compared to the fact that Sly now had a good idea of how he was going to mess with Carmelita's head this time... but that photo of her behind those security bars wasn't enough by itself. "Leaving a duplicate of that photo on her desk would be an easy way to mess with her... but I've already used that trick quite a few times before. Might as well get back to the safe house so Bentley can brief me on whatever he's come up with so far."