HEART, AND EAR, AND EYE
Slideshow 3
The opening screen of a slideshow comes up, with the typical Sly Cooper logo Bentley uses, then wavers, as though the powerpoint is as unsteady as a real slideshow. The pictures change sporadically throughout, with no real logic or reason behind them, showing various images from game 2, areas 4 and 5, as well as numerous shots of Bentley through the years, from pictures that must have been taken when he was growing up at the orphanage to recent ones of him analyzing postcards and posing in his Victorian-era finery.
Carmelita:
Okay, everyone here? Ready to listen?
Sly:
What are we just standing around for? Bentley's IN THERE.
Carmelita:
The theater's locked down tight. Nothing short of a tank's getting through those walls, Ringtail—
Murray:
But we have a tank!
Carmelita:
—and using one will get all the police in the city down on us. The Cooper gang avoids that, don't they? And it'd bring even more people into The Contessa's web. But we are going to get Bentley back, and then I'll string that witch up with my own two hands.
Sly:
So what are we waiting for?
Thaddeus:
Patience, Sly. I spoke with Miss Fox while you were napping—
Sly:
Napping?! You clocked me!
Thaddeus:
Let us not sweat the details. Our opportunity will come with dusk.
Carmelita:
Thaddeus is right. We need to be ready at dusk. They'll open the doors for opening night. That's when we'll go in and take her down. She had me for weeks and didn't break me, she had Murray hopped up on spice for over a week to break him, Bentley will be fine. But there are a few things that need to be dealt with before then, and we know The Contessa's on to us. No one goes on a job alone.
Murray:
You got it, Carmelita! If I see that spider, I'm going to tie her legs in a GORDON KNOT.
Sly:
That's 'Gordian', big guy. Okay, Carm, what do we need to do?
Carmelita:
First off. When we get in there, we're going to take out her whole operation, and that means we have to get rid of that black glowing thing. Before Bentley vanished, he said the ropes would have to be burned to be taken out.
I already took care of three places with lightning rods, but there's one more, a lampmaker's shop. It must have something to do with the lights and her hypnosis. If it's anything like the last two, I'll probably have to go in there, but Thaddeus'll come with me.
Sly:
You know, I could—
Carmelita:
It's in case there's something from this time period he has to deal with.
Thaddeus:
Do not worry, young Sly. I will take good care of your young lady, if by any chance she needs it.
Carmelita:
Call me Sly's 'young lady' again and I'll feed you your own tail.
Thaddeus:
I'll take care not to do so.
Carmelita:
Good. Now. When Murray destroyed the advertisements, jewelry fell out of it—period appropriate, to make it worse. Bentley's machine confirmed that The Contessa's got some milder version of that brainwashing stone in there. Thaddeus told me he'd seen identical jewelry in the pawn shop. Sly, Murray, you two get to go there.
Sly:
Wait, the pawn shop? Really?
Carmelita:
Is that going to be a problem, Sly?
Sly:
No, no problem. None at all. Nope, no problems here.
Carmelita:
Good. We're going to have to be in constant contact here; no mistakes, no hesitation. Murray, during Thaddeus and my mission you will be manning the com station and Sly will be roaming the streets for anything out of the ordinary. Thaddeus, you'll be on the streets when Sly and Murray are occupied. If you see anything that could even remotely in your wildest dreams be a piece of that spider, get in contact with someone.
Thaddeus:
This appears to cover all the bases.
Sly:
Yeah, but... we have to do it without Bentley.
Murray:
Don't worry, buddy. We'll get him out.
Sly:
But what if this doesn't work?
Carmelita:
Then we'll forget the subtlety and break down the theater walls with the tank, because I am not leaving anyone in that spider's clutches. We've got a lot of ground to cover, so let's move, people!
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Sly: Disguised Pickpocket. Steal other's valuables no matter WHAT you're wearing!
Carmelita: Grenade Shot. Damages all enemies in the vicinity, but fires slower than other shots.
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