"Marlene! Oh God, Marlene!" I line up the shot, but movement in my peripheral distracts me. I turn to face it, and catch a clumsy punch to the cheek. It's the guy I knocked out earlier, and he's pissed. He's shouting traitor and accusing me of killing Marlene, and I know Rip hears him. He leans back for another punch, but this time I'm ready. I knock it aside and using that momentum deliver a quick uppercut to his jaw. A short jab to the throat silences him, but knife to the gut ensures his silence. He falls to the ground and falls over with a soft thud. I can see Rip pulling out her pistol, but I duck behind the window and toss a smoke bomb I picked up back in Pittsburg.
Her shot hisses through the air above me and before she can line up her second shot to pierce the flimsy office wall the bomb explodes and the smoke fills the air. I can hear her hacking from the smoke, but I can't pinpoint her location from the echo in the parking garage. I know she'll recover soon, so I toss out an IED I got from a man in Lincoln just before he hung himself. If I'm lucky the shrapnel will be enough to kill her even if the explosion isn't.
Before it can go off, I jump into a car and hotwire it. The bomb goes off and distracts me before I can make the final connection. I should feel sad for killing my old mentor, but all I feel is relief. She butchered my family, and I killed her. All the pressure I've felt for the past 3 years fades away, and I even manage to smile. I start the car and decide to follow the Smuggler and Asset. Inopportune as it be, they're the closest thing to allies I have now. I start the car pull out of the parking garage and set off into the rising sun.