Part 3

Amy awoke to chattering of male voices in her apartment. She got out of bed, rubbing her eyes and put on a robe. She walked out into her lounge area to see Hannibal, Face, Murdock and BA talking. Face was at the kitchen area, more casually dressed in jeans and a shirt, than the night before, fixing some breakfast for everyone. It looked like Murdock was trying to help, but from Face's expression she didn't think he was helping Face that much at all. Hannibal and BA sat at the dining table that was in the far corner, nearest the kitchen area.

"Hannibal, I'm telling you the guy was looking for…" Face dropped off his conversation with Hannibal when he saw Amy enter the room.

"Morning guys, its not even 8 o'clock!"

"Morning" they all called out in unison. Murdock gave his little wave.

Amy sat at the table and Face placed in front of her some pancakes and a mug of hot coffee.

"Face, some day you will make someone the perfect wife," she joked. Face wasn't sure whether to take it as a compliment or not.

Amy ate her breakfast with the rest of team, who were also provided pancakes by Face. Similar jokes passed across the table and as usual Face took them in his stride. Amy watched the four of them joke with one another. They could easily wind each other up and to an outsider you'd think the hated one another, but the stuff they said to one another really wasn't to be taken seriously.

"Right, I gotta get ready for work. No one need the bathroom?"

The guys shook their heads and gestured that she should go ahead. Once Amy was out of earshot, Face continued his conversation with Hannibal.

"Amy said he's a corporate Lawyer, if that's any help to finding out who the other guy at the table was. But I tell ya, last night, he was looking around the room, mainly in that direction." Face pointed to the area where the television sat on a wooden unit.

"mmm," Hannibal was planning, because he took a cigar out of his pocket, lit it and puffed away at it. "Murdock, I want you to take Amy to work today. Take her car, its less obvious than Face's and then keep watch, if she leaves the LA Courier, follow her. Don't let her cotton on, whatever you do!"

"Yeah, coz she's likely to go mad," Face added.

"OK, Colonel" Murdock saluted Hannibal in his usual fun way.

"And just be careful, you might not be the only person watching her." Hannibal added. Murdock nodded as if to say he understood.

"So, what are we going to do?" Face asked.

"We're going to find what Gregory boy is looking for," Hannibal beamed.

"He's on the jazz, man, he's on the jazz" BA could be heard muttering at the table drinking his glass of milk.


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Amy finally emerged from her bedroom dressed for work. She was wearing a grey pencil skirt, just cut above the knees, a pretty white short-sleeved blouse and high black stiletto shoes. Her make up was light and as she walked through to the lounge, she was fixing her earrings. She grabbed her purse from the coffee table she'd left it the night before and checked its contents to make sure she had everything she needed.

"Right, what are you guys up to today?"

"Well, Murdock here is going to take you to work, so he can commandeer your car. What time are you likely to finish?"

"About 5pm, I suppose, unless something comes up."

"Well, Face will pick you up then, is that OK?"

"Yeah, OK. And what are you guys going to do?" Amy was a little baffled by Hannibal's comments, but wasn't in the mood to protest.

"Well, we're going to commandeer your apartment for this morning," Hannibal smiled. "We've got some background to run on a potentially new client and what better place to hide out than in your apartment? It's a comfy enough place to hide out for a while, whilst we do some digging about." He lied.

"Right, well, I leave Face in charge with my apartment then." And with that, Amy grabbed a spare set of keys from a drawer in the kitchen and tossed them to Face, which he caught. "Face, I expect to find this place as I left it, you hear! Otherwise you're in trouble!" And she looked at him in such away, screwing up her eyes as if to say she meant it too.

"Huh, why me?" Face wasn't overjoyed by his responsibility.

"Because, these guys wreck even the most luxurious apartment you can con, so imagine what damage they could do to my actual apartment? Can I trust you?"

"OK, OK. I promise this place will be as you left it." Face smiled at her, in his you can trust me kind of way.

"Right then, I'll see you guys later. Some of us have work to do!" Amy said as she grabbed a larger shoulder bag, which contained her notebooks and everything else she needed for her job and left her apartment with Murdock, closing the door behind them.

They waited until Amy was definitely along the corridor outside and out of earshot.

"BA, you still got that metal detector in the back of the van?" Hannibal asked. BA nodded back and left the apartment to get the metal detector.

"Hannibal, do you really think that's necessary?" Face whined.

"Yes, the thing we are looking for could be metal, Face, and if it is, we'll find it quicker." Hannibal grinned.

"But what if it isn't metal."

"Then we tear Amy's apartment apart," Hannibal grinned again, especially when he saw the expression of Face's face! "Lets just try this first, eh?"

BA started walking around Amy's apartment with the detector in his arms, concentrating on the area first that Face had said Greg had been most interested in. The walls and the floor came up with nothing in that area, but it wasn't long before the metal detector was beeping at the fitted unit along the wall.

It was a large built in unit that went across the majority of one wall of the apartment; it had various shelving and drawers, but also a large enough space for a television to sit within it. Below where the television sat, there were a couple drawers down the left hand side; the right side was shelving where the VCR sat. They weren't sure if there were screws or nails that might have been setting it off. The television unit also could have been setting it off, but they thought they'd check it out in case.

BA hurriedly pulled out one of the drawers and emptied the contents untidily onto the floor. He looked inside the drawer and then threw it aside. Face winced; he could see BA was going to rip the whole unit apart at this rate and knew he'd be the one having to do the smooth talking to Amy. The contents in the drawer were mainly videos cassettes. BA then grabbed at the other drawer and emptied the contents of this drawer too.

"Hold it, BA" Hannibal called. "Look at the end of the drawer". Hannibal pointed to the drawer and sure enough, it was double skinned. The end was thicker. Hannibal took the drawer and tapped away at the double skin from inside the drawer. It came away with ease and inside it laid a small key.

"Bingo, guys!" Hannibal said as he held up the key.

"mmm…looks like a key to a safety deposit box to me". Face took the key from Hannibal and studied it.

BA started putting the contents of the drawers back, not so carefully.

"BA! Will you be careful with that, it's my head that's going to roll if this place isn't back to normal!"

"Ah man, you ain't afraid of Amy are you?"

"Never underestimate the powers of a woman, BA!" Hannibal chipped in before Face could protest, winking at Face.

Once the apartment had been put back to normal and some adjustments had been made to Hannibal's specifications, the guys swiftly departed, Face locking the apartment door behind him and putting the keys into his pocket.