(Sly Voice-Over)
(image of a calendar with crossed off days) A month passed with nothing to show for it. We'd already exhausted all of our sources of information (pictures of the attempts they'd made in the opening of Fiends From The Past). The only luck Carmelita and I had was convincing Dr. Foxworthy to take a long vacation. The old guy'd accumulated over a year's worth of vacation days by not using any of them for ages, so he had all the time he needed. (picture of Sly and Carmelita all but shoving the old fox on a plane.)
With him out of the way, there was nothing to stop Carm and I from going through his files ourselves (picture of Carmelita pulling on gloves with a snap while staring at a filing cabinet.) Dr. Foxworthy'd been there so long, half his information wasn't even on computers, but I still brought in some after-hours help. (picture of Bentley joining Carmelita in the office, looking through folder after folder.) We don't have much to go on, but the only connections we have are that everyone involved has been an old enemy of ours, and they all went through Dr. Foxworthy's treatment. Who knows; maybe we'll find something else in there. Though his file on Penelope was... interesting. (picture of Bentley opening a folder larger than he was only to find several pages with bold writing, the phrase 'WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS MOUSE?' visible in several places.)
We hadn't found any leads when Murray noticed something that changed all our plans. (image of Murray reading the newspaper at breakfast and reacting so harshly to something that he sprays a mouthful of coffee all over the table, Sly, Bentley, and the wall, leaving cartoon outlines of Sly and Bentley but completely missing Carmelita even though she's sitting between them.) The local paper had an article on a museum exhibit, and in one of the pictures was Penelope. Unmistakably. Sitting on a biplane in the 1940's.
I let Interpol know we had a lead, that we needed to go on an undercover assignment (picture of Sly talking to Interpol's director), and even managed to steal a part from that airplane before Carmelita stopped cursing. (picture of Sly showing up, part in hand, to see Bentley and Murray cowering as Carmelita stomps around the safe-house). We gathered our things and got in the van at once.
(Sly and Carmelita settle in the back of the van, Sly rubbing Carmelita's shoulders, clearly trying to get her to calm down... and it's working. The time machine roars into life.) It's time to settle this. For all our sakes.
But for Bentley's most of all. (Sly glances over his shoulder at Bentley, who's staring at the torn photo of him and Penelope as though it has all the answers.)
SLY COOPER
AND THE GANG
IN:
PROGRAMS OF BETRAYAL