Jackie had gone through the room Brian used when he stayed at the apartment and found the papers that Brian needed before he left the country. He must not have had time to grab everything was Jackie's only thought. Jackie loved his cousin but knew he played things close to his chest and you never really knew what side he was on unless he helped you along the way. Jackie was organizing the papers and found names that he didn't even know but knew them to be wanted for Brian to have their name. He picked up another thick stack of papers and found one name attached - Owen Shaw.

Jackie almost dropped the papers as a shiver convulsed through his body. He had never met Owen but the few times he saw Brian while they were together, Jackie had wanted to kill the man. Brian wouldn't say anything but Jackie knew that Brian wasn't in a healthy relationship. He never showed up with a bruise on his face but he was sure that things weren't peachy and Brian was never allowed more than a couple of hours out of Owen's sight.

Each time Brian got a call on his cell phone he curled even tighter into himself and was reluctant to leave when Owen gave him his five minute warning that he would be outside. Brian would rush his good byes and be out waiting before Owen even made it into the driveway. Jackie was looking back on it with 20/20 hindsight and knew Brian was protecting him and his family. Jackie had wondered if Brian was still going to school but Brian assuaged his fears by showing him a diploma stating he was Salutatorian of the high school he started attending in the ninth grade.

When that happened Jackie finally got enough of Brian's attention and they had a very long talk about how Brian could leave Owen for good. As Brian started extracting himself from Owen's life, Owen was getting tired of Brian, but instead of killing him he gave him a going away beating and dropped him in front of Jackie's house with a warning not to say a word. Brian heeded the warning and after he healed physically he'd looked at his options and decided that law enforcement would fit his natural skills.

Jackie shook his head and put Owen's papers on the bottom. He looked at the clock and saw Brian should be up so he called the number he had. Brian answered on the second ring, "Jackie. You have those papers?"

"Yeah I got them. Do you know what you're doing Brian?" Jackie asked worriedly.

"Yeah. I'm fine. Dom's been good." Brian reassured as he glanced at Dom in the passenger seat.

"Where do you want these papers sent?"

"Send them to Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport and have them delivered to locker number 1812. We'll be there in about three days for our flight."
"Alright. Stay safe man. You've been all over the news more than that Dom guy you brought to me."

"I will. I'll call you when I get the papers."

"Good. I'll have my phone on me at all times so call me asap."

"I will." Then Brian hung up his phone and put it back in the middle console.

Dom, who hadn't taken his eyes off Brian the entire time he talked to Jackie, asked, "So we're leaving North America? Was that the plan all along?"

Brian took a deep breath and said, "Yeah that's been my plan the entire time. Don't worry I've got papers for you and me. I've had them for a while as a back up plan."

"You really are something Brian." Dom sighed as he looked back out the window.

"It's time for your medicine again. You need to rest."

"I'll take my meds when I decide I need them, not you." Dom snapped.

Brian held his hands up in surrender then took the wheel again. "Just trying to help."

"You seem to be doing a fine job of it so far." Dom said.

Brian gripped the wheel a little tighter and pressed the accelerator closer to the floor.

Sergeant Tanner sat in his office at the East Los Angeles precinct covering mostly Echo Park and the surrounding areas. He was going through the Toretto case that Brian had passed along to him before all hell broke loose the day before and he couldn't believe that Brian was going with the lie that Johnny Tran was the one doing the truck jackings but it was all there in detailed reports - reasons aka excuses that Toretto and his team didn't do the jackings except for the last one and Brian rolled that back around to be coerced by Tran Jr. Tanner rubbed his face and went to get up to get another cup a shitty coffee when he saw Penning open his door and knock at the same time.

"Special Agent Max Penning. I need to talk to you about O' Conner."

"How do you know about Brian?" Tanner asked.

"He worked for the FBI and this was his cover to get to his undercover assignments."

Tanner gripped the edge of his desk and said slowly, "Keep your voice down and lock the door. I don't want any interruptions." He continued this line of thought in his head, 'while I murder you with my bare hands.' Tanner continued to his coffee pot and asked, "Coffee?"

"I'm good." Penning replied. He watched at Tanner fixed his coffee with jerky movements and then he moved back around to his seat and motioned for Penning to sit down.

"So Brian works for the FBI but posing as an LAPD undercover officer." Tanner summarized gesturing to the suit.

"Yeah. He's one of our best undercover agents. He's fooled you guys for ten years."

"Or he could've fooled you guys for ten years." Tanner repeated.

Penning hoped to break the parrot and innuendo game with Tanner so he asked bluntly, "How well do you know O' Conner?"

"As well as he'll let anyone know him. I know he went to the Academy and took the speed course for his criminal justice degree. No living relatives as far as I know but as far as anything else I can only take educated guesses." Tanner replied.

"O' Conner is good for a reason. He can slide in and out before people realize what he's done and then he's onto his next life and adventure. Something about Toretto though, flipped a switch inside and now he's more wanted than your guy will ever be. I'm keeping things under wraps at the federal building until I can get a better idea about where he's headed."

"And what will that tell you?" Tanner asked curious about where Penning could be going with this train of thought.

"A lot actually. Brian's upset a couple of people in the past and he would want to get as far from them as possible. If I know where then I can be better prepared for any possible shitstorms that he'll likely bring back to the US."

"If you know where he might go then why don't you have agents waiting and get him before he can cause you any trouble?" Tanner asked like that would be the most sensible thing to do.

"Because if I even hear Brian O' Conner's name over the airwaves he'll be there for a reason. He knows how to disappear if he really wants to but I have a feeling other stuff is going to get in the way before he gets to decide where to disappear."

"Well we'll keep our eyes and ears open." Tanner said.

"And if you hear anything, you call me. I'll know what to do." Penning said as he handed Tanner his card with his office number and cell number and stood to make his exit.

Tanner stood and shook Penning's hand and said, "Thanks for coming and seeing me." Penning left Tanner's office for his thirty minute trek back to his own office.