The rest of the team arrived. Even though Sophie and Eliot urged her to just sit down and relax, Annie wasn't satisfied until they all had found a comfortable place to sit and had a beverage of their choice in their hands. She would also have started to cook, but Hardison had planned ahead and brought in Chinese.

While they ate, she listened to Nate's plan with more and more awe on her face.

"Seriously, guys, who are you people?" she asked.

Nate looked her in the eye.

"We are help", he said. "It's what we do."

"But why?"

"Because you are a very nice person, Annie, and you don't deserve these things happening to you", Eliot explained. Annie wasn't satisfied with that.

"But I can't let you risk all that for me. You could get hurt. You could get arrested. I don't want for you to get into trouble because of me. Why can't we just inform the police? I mean, with blowing my shop up, Farnham clearly went too far."

"I thought you didn't want the police", Eliot said.

"Yeah, because I didn't want healtch and safety on my back ... but now, a health inspecton of the Foodbasket is no longer a concern. I mean, what could they find? Mould on the debris?"

Nate shrugged his shoulders.

"Your call", he said. "But I doubt that the evidence we have against Farnham would hold up in court. We have to get him to screw up right in front of the police."

"I don't think he is likely to do that", Sophie said.

"Exactly! And that's why we are going to make him. Let's steal a police station." Nate smiled while he said it. Annie choked on a sip of her tea and started to cough.

"You what?"

But Nate was already elaborating on the plan.

"Eliot, you will act as Annie's new business partner. That will allow you to insure her safety and will also serve as an explanation to Farnham how she got the funds to open a new shop so quickly. Annie, you will call Farnham back and tell him that you recline his offer for good, because you will reopen the Foodbasket in a new location ... let's say ... next Saturday."

"Next Saturday? I cannot reopen that fast ... I have no furniture, no goods to sell ... nothing. And where is that new location supposed to be?"

Nate ignored her questions for the moment.

"Hardison, I need you to check into the business connection between Farnham and Farm Friends. Find out while Annie poses such a problem for him. Sophie, you and Parker will prepare the police station for our visit on Saturday."

Sophie looked at him puzzled, then her face lit up.

"Oh ... two sides of the coin ... the Ianus Scam ... yeah, that could work."

"What do I need to do?" Parker wanted to know. "Do I get to jump from the roof?"

Sophie shook her head.

"Sorry, darling, not this time. I need you to help me promote healthy eating."

Eliot, probably thinking of Parker's weird breakfast habits, let out a snort.

"Good luck with that."

"Next we need a few extras. Since we cannot really advertise Annie's new shop location publicly, we need to provide some fake visitors to make the thing look real. Both things that is. Sophie, some of your theater friends, maybe?"

The grifter laid her head to one side thoughtfully.

"I don't know ... I have been a bit out of touch with that scene lately."

Eliot interrupted her.

"Maybe you don't need to. I think I know just the right people for the job. Annie, don't you think your neighbors will just love to help you out on this one?"

"Would they be in any danger?", the young woman wanted to know.

"Not at all", Nate said convincingly.

"Then I am sure they would be delighted to help", Annie said. "But I still have no idea what this is all about."

"How good is your knowledge of ancient Roman myth?" Nate asked.

Eliot raised his eyebrows in amusement.

"Archaeology?" he reminded his team.

Annie shrugged,

"Yeah, I think I am familiar with most of the deities and storylines involved. But what does that have to do with anything?"

"What do you know about Ianus?"

Annie didn't have to think long.

"One of the oldest Roman gods. He has two faces, the beginning and the end. That's why the first month in the calendar is called January. He also symbolizes any form of ambivalence."

"Two faces", Nate stressed. "Making different people see different things. That's what the Ianus Scam is about. In our case, Farnham will see a newly opened organic foodstore. The police wil see a charity event on their premises, promoting healthy eating for indigent families."