Dimitri interrupted Lucas and Harry's conversation quite abruptly. But, it didn't seem to cause a problem. Hearing that Tariq had found something that could help work out whether the story Kovalevski was telling was real, the three of them headed back to Tariq.
"What do you have for us?" Harry asked his subordinate.
"At first, when Ros told me to look for any communication between our suspect and 'Prince John', I thought she was mad. I mean Prince John has been dead for a very long time."
Harry glared at him. Quickly returning back to the conversation, Tariq cleared his throat and carried on.
"But, then as I did a bit of digging into Kovalevski's phone records and email, I found he has been in contact with some called John Prince. Prince is a multi-millionaire explosive expert who exports explosive equipment from the Middle East to Europe."
"Good work," Harry praised him. "What else have you got?"
Tariq handed Harry a list of known associates of Prince. Scanning through the names, Harry noticed that all of them were Robin Hood characters. While it did give the team a good start at identifying another possible suspect, the code of using Robin Hood characters as aliases still confused Harry. He wanted to know more about Prince's associates.
"Do we know why Prince has coded his associates with fictional character names?"
"I'm guessing to keep them anonymous." Tariq hinted.
"I still don't get what this has got to do with Kovalevski," Harry admitted.
"Maybe Kovalevski is one of these Robin Hood characters?" Tariq said.
"Well, he must be. He has been in contact with Prince." Ros added.
"Or he might just be a potential buyer of Prince who doesn't know anything about an attack."
"So are we saying Prince is not a potential suspect?" Lucas asked.
"No. We keep investigating further." Harry insisted. "Until we know for certain that Kovalevski is the only person of interest, we have to keep Prince on our list too."
"Harry's right. It's not a coincidence that Prince's associates have aliases. He must be involved in this attack." Ros backed.
"Okay, so now we have a lead about who is behind a possible attack, we just need to work out where this is going to take place," Dimitri said.
"Well, we know Prince is using Robin Hood characters as aliases to cover his associates, so the only possible target for them to attack is the Bank of England, right?" Lucas conjectured. "I mean if Prince is using the legend as a script, he will want to steal the money and give it to those in need."
"Or maybe he just wants the money for himself?" Tariq said.
"But, what for?" Dimitri asked. "How is targeting the Bank of England going to help Prince or Kovalevski?"
Harry could see his team were coming up with possible theories about why the Bank of England would be the best target. Except they had missed out one significant detail. If they were going to go with the theory that the reason why Prince was utilizing the Robin Hood legend as a cover, then who would be more valuable in helping him destroy the country? To Harry, it was obvious who the target was, he just wanted his team to figure it out for themselves. Lucas turned Harry.
"Harry?" You don't seem convinced." he told him when Harry hadn't spoken.
"You lot seem to be right about why Prince may be using the names of fictional characters, just not right about the target." Harry pointed out.
"Which is what?" Tariq stated.
"Honestly, you call yourselves MI5 agents? Who is the one person who is a trophy for Prince? If he is acting out the Robin Hood legend, who stands in his way?"
The team still seemed to have no idea what Harry was talking about. Harry offered them another clue to see if they could work it out from there.
"Apart from the Bank of England, who else is essential to the stability of this country?"
"The Queen," Lucas replied as it suddenly registered.
Harry nodded. He was glad someone had finally figured out who he was talking about.
"Okay, so now we have 2 possible targets. But, how do we know which one is the actual one? And how do we know if there is going to be an attack.?" Tariq wondered.
"That's what we have to find," Harry said. "Now that we have some intel to go on, work from there. I want Tariq and Dimitri to search through Kovalevski's phone records. Listening to any recordings of Kovalevski's conversations with Prince and see if you can work out what the plan is. Ros, I want you to work on the names of Prince's associates and see if they are possible suspects. While you guys do that, I want Lucas and Erin to go undercover."
"Undercover? Where?" Lucas asked.
"We know that these names are aliases. Since we know that Kovalevski and Prince have been communicating through phone calls and email only, we can assume that Prince won't recognize their faces. Therefore, I want the two of you to go in as two of his potential associates and see where the weapons are being kept." Harry explained.
"But, we don't even know where Prince is," Dimitri said.
"I can help you there," Tariq answered.
He tapped away at a few keys and then brought up an image of a website.
"This is his office. I can get more details about the building." He said to Erin and Lucas.
With the team divided up into groups, they all set about unraveling the attack. Lucas and Erin scanned through the names of Prince's associates to figure the best plausible cover stories. Before heading off, Tariq told Lucas and Erin that the building consisted of 24 floors and high-level security. Entering the building would have been difficult if they didn't have their undercover identities. With the relevant information they needed to infiltrate the building, Erin and Lucas drove off.