"Did you find her yet?" Cobb asked as Ariadne and Arthur walked through the warehouse door.
Arthur took a deep breath of frustration and replied. "Yes." Of course he did, it took him an hour to do it. He's not Google, but he gets the job done.
Ariadne continued walking to her work station and sat down with her models. She was listening to every word they were saying but pretending to ignore them.
Arthur and Cobb walked towards the center of the warehouse where Eames was.
"We're getting Katherine." Cobb said as he approached him.
Eames started shaking his head. "It's not good idea. Last I saw her, her mind was half gone." Eames said sadly.
Cobb shook his head and started pacing. "She's fine. A little beat up, but she's fine. She's hiding. Scared. Scared and hiding."
Arthur and Eames just looked at him.
"Cobb, how long has it been since you've slept?" Eames enquired.
"What?" Cobb asked looking a bit disoriented.
"That long eh? Yusuf have Cobb take a bit of a nap with that wonderful sedative you gave me last night." Eames told Yusuf.
Yusuf looked at him. "You said you couldn't remember what was happening in that dream."
"Exactly, I haven't slept that good in ages. Hop to it then, and when you've rested we'll discuss Katherine again. Sound good?" Eames was using his condescending voice.
"Eames, I'm not going to try a sedative that doesn't work." Cobb sated blankly.
"Oh it's great look, just sleep for a bit, test it out. When you wake up we'll discuss Katherine. But really, just do this." Cobb shook his head but lied down on the beach chair and let Yusuf give him the sedative anyway.
"Excellent, he should be out for a while. He'll need time to clear his head." Eames then turned to Arthur. "Now tell me where Katherine is."
"Sidney." Arthur replied briskly.
"Sidney, that's good. She always liked Australia. Do you know if she's alright? Her condition, has it worsened?" Eames' voice had taken a softer tone as opposed to his dry yet good natured one he usually had.
"She's been admitted to the hospital twice this year. Once for malnutrition and the other for a broken arm. I don't know if that has to do with her condition." Arthur concluded and Eames nodded.
Eames then walked out of the building without another word.
"You should probably go after him." Ariadne said from across the room.
Arthur looked at her and thought about it. "No, he needs to think."
"Was he close to her?" Ariadne asked.
He walked over to her work station and sat on the chair closest to her desk.
"She taught him everything he knew. He was just an extractor but she knew all the dirty tricks and taught them to him. I'm not sure how they met but they were quite the pair. She had always been sick but it got really bad. She took off at one point took a few jobs but after that last one, she disappeared. We never bothered to look for her, we knew using her wouldn't be good and she couldn't do it anymore." His leaned his elbows on his knees and took a deep breath. "I don't understand why Cobb wants her so badly."
"Cobb has this way about him. He's obsessive, I mean I don't know him as well as you do. But from what I do know, he's obsessive and he will stop at nothing to get what he wants." Ariadne said matter-of-factly. Not in a dark way, but just saying how it was.
"No you're right. I think if he sees her he'll give up. Last time we saw her she was bad considering she's only been getting worse…hopefully he'll let it go." Arthur said this more to himself than to her.
Ariadne nodded and put her hand on his knee. "Don't let this stress you out, just keep focusing on the work. Have you found out anything new on the mark?"
"A few things," He said grateful for the change of subject. "Nothing we can use though."
"Don't be so sure, you never know what it all means subconsciously."
"So what's been happening in your head lately?" Eames asked Cobb when he woke up.
Cobb shook his head. "I know it sounds crazy, but I need Katherine for this job. I need another forger and I need a good one. I need one that's better than you."
"If she's too sick, you have to give this up." Eames said darkly.
"She won't. I knew her too, Eames. She won't give this job up."
"Who are you texting?" Eames asked Arthur at the airport. They had just gotten to Sidney and were waiting for their rental car.
Arthur put his phone in his pocket and looked at Eames. "I was informing Ariadne about our trip. I also needed to tell her a few things about the job that she needs to get done in my absence." He cleared.
Eames gave him a look. "Right. Well you sure do spend lots of time with her. You come in together, you usually leave together. You talk every five seconds about something or other now you're texting. Hmmm."
Arthur gave him a goaded look and looked like he would say something but then Cobb came by with the keys to the rental.
The drive in Sidney was a long one, like all large cities the traffic was a nightmare. They finally made it into Katherine's neighborhood an hour later.
"Here it is." Arthur said. Cobb parked the car and fueled the meter; all three of them went in the building.
The building wasn't terrible, it was bordering on three star but the graffiti made it hard to judge. The men walked three flights of stairs to the forger's apartment.
"3B," Arthur said. Then Eames knocked.
There was silence. No one dared talk, they just listened for movement.
About a minute later they heard the jangling of the door's locks and then the door opening revealing a gaunt girl in gray sweats and matted dirty blonde hair.
"Let me just take a guess at why you three are here."