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Helldane's not going to show.

Don't be negative.

You'll show.

Janice knows that we're after his couriers. Ten credits says you benched

Helldane and moved the drop.

Patience, partner.

The night's showing that the move's lovely.

And we got provisions.

How can you eat that night?

Ignore him, my sweet.

What we have is special.

Don't go away.

There's our boy.

Grab him now?

No. I'm going to make a drop first.

Amato. Amato! I gave him the evening off.

Janice.

What do you want me to do with... Behind the counter.

And, uh, my pay, sir?

There's a class card on the counter behind you. Take.

Thank you, sir.

Not bad.

Go.

Cardigan and Gomez.

Still chasing my peons, I see.

Well, this is a new low.

Even for you, Jan, it's killing one of your own.

Haldane was a weak link in my organization.

I'm better off without him.

Give it up, Cardigan.

You'll never get to me.

Passed away today, best remembered as the 45th president. She was impeached in

her third term.

Services for Ms. Clinton... Volume off.

This lead go nowhere fast.

Cheer up. We'll pop Janice sooner or later.

We can't even catch one of his drivers double parked.

The bathroom's about a millimeter away from pulling us off this case.

Buy him on.

The arrest of Alana Vash, a highly placed operative of a tech lord known

Janice.

Somebody nailed Vash. The arrest was made by the newly formed tech posse, so

dubbed by their leader, former Attorney General John Grant.

I have pledged to bring every tech lord to justice.

Today's arrest brings us one step closer to the worst of them all.

Janice. In other news... Get off.

Three months.

Three months we have been trying to get Janice.

We haven't even been able to bag a courier.

And Grant sets up this tech policy in one week, one lousy, stinking week, and

already busts Vash. Hey, at least somebody's making progress.

We're all on the same side, you know? Yeah, but Grant's team's doing all the

scoring. I mean, I'm starting to think that we're playing in the Bush League.

You are, Jake.

It's time you joined the majors.

I'm John Grant and I'd like you on my team.

Your office said I might find you here.

May we speak privately?

That's my best time anyway.

Later, partner.

Well, it's an honor to meet you, sir.

John will do.

Here's your beer.

Thanks.

Jake, I've had my eye on you for a while.

Just on me?

Goldman is a good man.

Solid record.

But I'm looking for the best of the best.

That's you, Jake.

Your talents are wasted at Cosmos.

Well, I wouldn't say wasted.

I would.

Cosmos is a business.

It has to serve the interests of its clients.

That goes with the territory of being a private investigator.

That's why I can offer you four things a Bascom can't.

Well, you can try.

Number one.

The tech posse is assembled for only one purpose, to bust tech lords.

Well, I'm doing that now.

Sporadically and ineffectively.

I'm not blaming you.

Getting leads on tech lords isn't easy, and having to go by the book doesn't

help either.

Number two,

ever pop someone you knew was dirty and watch a judge turn them loose on some

legal nitpick?

Yeah, it always seems like they're changing the rules to favor the

That's exactly what I told the president when she was asking me why we were

losing the war against tech.

She proposed Executive Order B -207, the tech posse's charter.

You familiar with it?

No.

Basically, it gives us the tools to get the job done.

Discretionary arrests, expanded powers of search and seizure, fewer

on data tapping.

All leading us towards the tech lord of tech lords, Janice.

He's not an easy mark.

And that's number three.

I know it was Janice who ordered the frame job that took away your badge and

sent you to the freezer.

Now, we've never been able to prove that Janice was the one that was pulling

Sonny Okori's strings.

One of the tech lords we arrested acknowledged his involvement.

Well, that's hardly proof.

You wouldn't think that if you understood the circumstances of his

Well, what's number four?

Something you thought you could never have again.

My parole prohibits me from ever becoming any kind of police officer. I'm

authorized to override your parole.

Jake, you can be a cop again.

Not just a cop, a federal agent.

One of a hand -picked team of top -notch law enforcement officers.

The best of the best.

Sounds like the opportunity of a lifetime.

It is.

And you trust this man, Grant?

John Grant is rock solid. He's incorruptible.

When he was attorney general, he gave a speech at the police academy, law

enforcement, and the public trust. Good speech?

Great speech.

Great speech.

It's not just what he said. It was his attitude.

He knew what that badge meant to us.

We walked out of the airfield ten feet tall.

Like we could just...

Change the world.

Passing exit 239.

10 kilometers to predetermined destination.

Sounds like you really want the job.

So what's holding you back?

I don't know. I'm asking for one. He's going to go through the roof when I tell

him that I'm leaving.

When?

Yeah, I guess I've made up my mind.

I'd say so.

Your what?

You heard me.

It wasn't an easy decision.

I'm sure it wasn't.

And it's fine?

Yes.

I have one thing to say to you, Jake Cardigan.

Go with my blessing.

You what?

You can't pass this up.

Grant's reputation is impeccable. Tech posse is an idea whose time has come.

You should be honored.

Well, I am, but... I understand your need for revenge against the tech lords,

and you can better exact that revenge with Grant than you can with us. So,

your gear in to Nika and stay in touch.

I don't get that guy.

That's just the way he likes it.

Are you going to miss me?

Terribly.

I'll pine for you with Eloise Punt Abelard.

My heart will weep, my soul will grieve.

Yeah, I'll miss you.

Jack.

Jake. What up?

I take it the deed is done.

Yes, I'm off the payroll.

Fasten the ticket well?

Ain't even bust up any furniture.

I guess she figures you know what you're doing.

What do you figure?

You kidding? I think it's great.

Not everybody gets the chance to play in the majors.

I tell you this, if Grant had given me the same shot, I'd be long gone.

Well, I hate to break up a great team. See, there you go, thinking negative

again. You should be dancing in the Adway.

I'm not leaving town, so I'll talk to you.

I guess so.

Make us proud.

Whatever it takes, find Falcon and find him now.

He has a sweet tooth for blondes and fancy hotels.

Jake!

Everybody, it's Jake Cardigan.

Good to have you with us. Great to be here.

Introduce yourselves later after you've located Falcon, all right?

No rest for the righteous.

The core isn't much, but it's home.

Now, first and last rule, we're a team. We depend on each other. You'll note

that we have no support staff, no assistants, no secretaries.

No leaks.

Exactly. We discuss our business with no one, not our spouses, our parents, not

even our pets.

I'm with you.

Good.

Get outfitted. You're going to hit the ground running.

We're about to move in on Janice's West Side Distributions, huh? Falk?

Slippery guy.

You actually got something on him?

More than nothing.

Alana Vash gave us Falcon's life story.

Vash talk? I'm impressed.

So, how'd you manage that? Stick around.

Wild horses couldn't drag me away.

You and Al Falcon, you're two steps away from Janice. At Cosmos, the most we

could do is get... Getting away by scaring out potential stools?

They run the same team now, buddy. Naturally.

You got a way of getting information that's better. I'd like to know it.

things first.

You ever see one of these babies?

Once or twice.

Working 3 .2.

20 rounds per second. Full automatic.

Muscle velocity 340 meters.

What else you got?

You're going to do just fine here, Cardigan.

Just fine.

Little door person not to bring the wheels around just yet. I think we're

to have lunch here today.

You know, these mid -afternoon visits really work up an appetite.

Oh, I spent too much, Blast. Who was the one who bought the solar -powered tie

rack, huh?

It was a lot cheaper than that stupid microwave hairdresser you bought, okay?

that stupid ultrasonic foot massager or that stupid moisturizing cream you put

on your face.

Come in.

Well, not a problem at all. Let me help you with that.

Thanks, Everett, sir. I'll come back.

Federal officers.

You're under arrest.

What's the charge?

Aspiring to commit a felony.

Who said I could fire with anybody?

We have multiple confessions from your associates.

Now you're going to tell us about Janice. Oh, come out, okay? Out.

What associates?

I don't have any associates.

Nice suit.

What's Janice to you mean? The Roman god or the fourth moon of Saturn? See,

because I don't know any people named Janice.

Elevator ride must have made you dizzy. Get this garbage out of here.

Take it down, Jake.

Thanks. Anytime.

Good to have you watching the backs, Jake.

Glad you're aboard.

Every time you guys haul me in, you act real tough. I stay stiff. My lawyer

comes. I go. You get jacked. So why do you even bother?

Got a new dance this time. Oh, yeah? Well, see, I demand to see my lawyer.

Denied.

See, no, you cannot stop me from talking to my lawyer. Sure I can.

Executive Order B -207 says I can do a lot of things.

What's that thing do?

Nothing at all, Falcon. Nothing at all. As long as you tell the truth.

Some kind of lie detector, huh? Some kind.

Now then, your name is Falcon?

You know what it is.

See? Nothing.

Must be a government issue.

Do you know the tech lord, Janice?

Never heard of him.

Don't worry. Nothing.

Are you part of his syndicate?

I don't know what you're talking about.

Torture? You can't do that.

I'm not doing anything. You control the machine. Are you part of this syndicate?

You know what Janice is hiding at.

Merchants and shipping.

Get on it.

Car,

tell her. Dig up everything you can on merchants and shipping.

Blueprints, the works.

Hey, that's one hell of a lie to tell.

Great, isn't it? And government think tank dreamed it up.

Doesn't do any real damage, but it gives the perp some interesting sensation.

Yeah, like somebody's ripping his brain out.

Only if you lie.

See, that's the beauty of it. If you're innocent, not. But if you're lying, it

senses the cognitive dissonance in your neural patterns, and it translates it

into pain.

And it's accurate?

Oh, yeah. Dead accurate. See, guys like that Falcon, they're trained to beat the

standard lie detectors.

That thing can't be beat.

That's how we know the information we get is good.

How's it going in there?

Falcon's been very helpful.

Thing is, Janice is always on the move.

We got a strike within the next 24 hours.

All right, what about Cosmos?

What about him?

Well, I just got a report that one of the guys, Sid Gomez, is still poking

around the case.

All they can do is screw things up.

Your pals, Jake, suggest they back off.

They may not want to. They make it an order.

Right.

I could see the use of the probe bothered you.

It was rough on me the first time I saw it.

Think about it.

Those who have nothing to conceal have nothing to fear.

The probe protects the innocent, keeps the guilty from hiding behind lies.

Now, what could be wrong with that?

Falcon called it torture.

Torture. Yeah, he's a fine one to talk.

Remember the informant the cops found in the river last month?

Yeah. Messed him up so bad that I had to use a DNA test to identify the guy.

Falcon just confessed to it, and a dozen others like it.

Now, is what we did to him...

One millionth of what he's done to the others.

Of course not.

And now he's off the street. He's out of business.

Right. And I'll sleep just fine tonight.

How about you?

I'll sleep better when we nail Janice.

You and me both.

Do you know that Janice has never been arrested?

I know.

Not even with Jay walking.

So I guess that means we'll be the first.

with the sentence he gets will be both the first and the last to bust him.

It's a nice thought, isn't it?

Damn nice, boy.

All rise.

We have a distinguished visitor.

You mean celebrity.

Congratulations, pal.

You're a bust of Falcons all over the news.

I didn't do much besides tag along.

You're tagging along with the right bunch of guys.

Yeah, well, good group.

Real pros. You'd like them.

And toys?

You would be in gizmo heaven.

But what about the long reposition forms on each gizmo? No forms. No forms. No

red tape. Not even when we nail Falcon.

Oh, so what's next?

Janice himself?

Can't talk about that, buddy.

Oh, what's the matter, man? You don't trust me?

Hey, I trust you with my life.

You know, I'm part of the job.

Forget about it. You got new friends, I understand. It doesn't matter.

Yeah, right.

What do you care about that case for, anyway?

What's Baskin got you on now?

Still after Janice.

Baskin will still have some faith, at least.

So what angle are you chasing? Are you trying to find out how Janice is

laundering his tech profits? Sorry, buddy, I can't talk about that. But you

didn't show up just to talk about the case, did you?

Kinda.

I just want to ask you a favor.

That's nice to know I can still do something for you.

Just, uh, I wondered if, uh, and it's no big deal, but could you just back off

on Janice just for a bit?

Why?

Does it really matter?

I'd appreciate it if you'd do that for me. Sorry, chum. I got a job to do, just

like you. Hey, come on, Sid.

I mean, don't make me... Make you what?

All right, have it your way.

I formally request that you would just back... Jake, you take your federal

and carve yourself... Hey, I'm trying to do my job.

Do yours, but don't tell me mine.

Is there a problem?

Do you have official business with this office, Mr. Cardigan?

Yes.

Then speak up.

We request... Request?

We order that you cease any further investigation of Janice or his tech

syndicate. By what authority?

By executive order B -207.

I see.

May I see your credentials?

Oh, come on, Bess. Your credentials, please.

I will comply with your order, Agent Carter.

Anything else?

No.

Then get off my property.

So if humanly men are done comparing testosterone levels, now what?

We keep after Janice, that's what.

We do. I thought we were off the case.

Weren't you paying attention?

Jake ordered Bascom off the case, and Bascom said?

I will comply.

Guess we'll have to crack this case without Bascom. Yeah, talk about hard

Come on.

Am I keeping you up?

You're too much on my mind. I can't sleep.

It's not like you to fight with Sid.

He blew up at me. It wasn't my fault.

I really couldn't do much about it.

I thought they arrested Falcon on the news.

Do you know what happens to him next?

You know I can't talk about that.

I'm not asking you to tell me. I'm asking you if you know.

No, I don't.

Will he be bound over for trial?

Given a chance to make bail? I don't know. I don't know.

Do you care?

No.

What happened to the Falcon? Not really, no.

Now, nailing Janice, yeah, that matters for something.

I know how much that matters, but how much is that going to cost you?

We may be pushing the rules a little bit, but that's because Janice has no

rules.

Grant may be playing it close to the edge, but he's a good man. He's not

to go over the line.

It's not just Grant that I'm worried about.

Falcon said Janice has set up a new tech lab right in there.

Something's going on.

Nobody's come in or out of that building for half an hour. Maybe Janice has

backed us through a tunnel.

Yeah, he dug it himself.

It's not in any of the plans.

We're moving in.

How could this be bogus? Falcon gave us his location under the probe. He

couldn't have been lying.

Ambush!

There's a kid out there!

Jake, don't go out there!

Jake, don't go out there!

He's gone.

I would think that he'll be okay.

Keller didn't make it.

Hello.

Falcon talked, did he?

Well, that's too bad. I don't always give my subordinates reliable

Oh, oh, cardigan.

Congratulations on your promotion.

If you really want to call it a promotion.

You're mine, Janice.

Words, Charlie. Just words.

Even with a federal badge, you can't back them up.

Pity about the poor boy lying there.

Too bad when you lose one of your own. But an innocent civilian.

the pain of your loss.

I lost my son five years ago.

It's nothing harder than burying a child.

We're not prepared to outlive our children.

Your son was truly an innocent victim.

I can offer little comfort except to promise you that I will not rest until

man responsible is brought to justice.

You have my word.

Too many casualties.

Sometimes I wonder if the fight is worth it.

That's what Janice wants you to wonder.

But that boy's blood is on his hands.

It's his use of violence that forced us to take this action. Never forget that,

Jake. Never doubt our purpose. If you do, Janice wins.

Yeah. Sir, we have a new lead on Janice. I've brought in the contact.

On our way.

Let's go.

I cleaned the rooms.

That's all. I don't know anything.

You know this man?

No. You told your boyfriend you overheard Janice talking about his

You brag you knew it. The police didn't. I don't know. I'm telling you.

Look, my boyfriend was lying.

We know he wasn't, and now we're going to see if you are. Hold it.

You can't do this.

She knows what Janice is. This woman is not a player.

She's an innocent. If she knows what Janice is hiding, she's no longer an

innocent.

Proceed.

This won't hurt you as long as you tell the truth.

No, I am not talking to you. They'll kill me. We'll protect you. Do you know

what Janice is hiding? No!

Go to hell.

Where is Janice? I don't know!

Tell us the truth and the pain will stop. I don't know anything.

Tell us. I don't know anything.

I don't know anything. I don't know. Say anything.

Take the damn thing off her.

She's not responding. Oh, my God.

Call the meds. No, she goes to the military base. This woman is in a coma.

We can't compromise the security of this operation. She goes to the base

hospital and nowhere else.

What went wrong?

Well, this woman is going to need a top neurologist, and I happen to know one,

one that's got a J -class security clearance.

Okay, do it.

How

is

she?

Her vital signs have stabilized, but her neural patterns are a mess.

And her endorphin levels are far out of balance as if she suffered some kind of

major trauma.

Is she going to recover?

I think so.

But it'll take some time.

Did you and Grant do this to her?

She did it to herself.

We did it to her.

How?

With some new kind of lie detector.

What has she done?

Withholding information.

So you tried to force it out of her?

Jake, you're playing with dangerous toys. We're not playing any games, Beth.

Okay, we've got a job to do.

We're the good guys, remember?

Well, you sure as hell aren't acting like it.

Sometimes the lies between right and wrong, they get blurry, Dr. Ketch.

Maybe to you, but I can still tell the difference. What you did to that woman

was wrong, period.

There are always necessary sacrifices.

What, meaning that as long as you win, you don't care who gets hurt?

That's not true. I care very deeply about her and the hundreds of others who

crippled or killed by Janice every minute he's in the tech business.

What about them, Doctor?

What about our obligation to them?

Does your obligation justify you to take the law into your own hands? I have

done no such thing!

Executive Order P -207 gives legal sanction to the tech posse's actions.

We have violated no laws.

Oh, well, I'll tell my patient that.

I'm sure she'll feel much better.

Sir, we may have located Janice.

On my way.

You got a half an hour to get back to him.

I can't quit now. If I quit now, all the sacrifices will be for nothing.

I can't stop thinking about that boy.

What am I going to do? Just forget about him?

And what am I going to do, let Janice get away?

Do what you think is right.

Still no headway in tracing Janice's money. Come on, I thought you were good.

They don't come any better, sweetie darling.

But I've chased down every money laundering scheme I can find. There's no

of Janice anywhere.

Okay, let's run it down again.

So far we can tell that he's not using foreign banks or offshore corporations.

Or matrix transfers or plutonium futures or cyber bonds or any of the usual

methods. Maybe that's where we're going wrong.

Janice doesn't do anything usual.

What about unusual methods?

Like what?

Like actually using his credits to buy things.

big -ticket items, then we sell them later.

Sounds awfully inefficient.

Yeah, but so what? Janet has credits to burn.

And if he's laundering his bucks in a clever but obscure way, all the better

keeping the cops off his trail.

Let's see what kind of expensive merchandise has been sold in the last

months, shall we?

All that news coverage finally did us some good.

This little fish right here got a little nervous and came to us first to cut a

deal.

Yeah,

it could be, but I don't think so, so I got a car in Bernheim checking out the

lead he gave us.

Here's the big antique auctions for the last six months.

Boy, people should pay tons of money for old junk.

Yeah. Now, find me some person, place, or thing that's spending great big sums.

That's exactly what I'm doing.

Cross -correlating the deepest pockets.

You're beautiful.

So I've been told.

Look here.

One company. I'm snatching up artwork, jets, cars, and a 70 -year -old yacht

that's worth seven times the GNP of most Eurasian nations.

Who owns that company?

I just knew you'd ask that.

It's a shell corporation with multi -interlocking stewardship.

Translation, you can't tell who owns it. Yep, it is marvelously tangled up.

Just the kind of smoke screen your big tech lords love.

Now, I'm starting to smell Janice. Yeah, you and me both, but we're not exactly

any closer to finding him.

A yacht, did you say?

Are you sure Janice is on board?

Confirmed. I need a lot of firepower on that boat.

We've spotted Janice twice and got the sensor positive ID.

He's there, all right, and he's got a lot of muscle.

Okay.

First move, cut off his escape routes, all right?

Let's go.

Go!

Nick, babe, the hunch paid off. Janice is aboard that yacht.

So, you want me to send over some backup?

No, I'm going to play it solo.

Janice smells trouble. He'll make her run for it.

You know Beth, big guy.

Michael, let's move. Let's move.

Keep launches on the starboard side of the ship.

Swing around wide to make off rope. Roger.

Activating cloaking shield.

Guard set.

Detonator set.

We're on board.

We're at the bow making our approach.

Aft position secure.

Warning down.

Four seconds and counting.

Upper deck secure, moving out.

On the main deck, forward side, cancelling the cast.

Janet has to be somewhere.

Don't think about it.

Jake!

Am I glad you allowed this shot.

I'm all out of this shot. You met me twice.

We'll get far.

My partner's on that boat, too.

I'm not letting Thomas get away.

I can't let you blow that boat up

with my partner on here.

It's his fault he's out there. You ordered him off the cape.

I'm bringing you upon charges.

Gaining and abetting a flight of a felon.

You go back to the freezer.

You will attend me to the freezer.

Ahoy!

Simple deal.

You get the collar on Janice, you drop the charges on my part.

Why should I care who gets the credit for the rest of Janice?

As long as he's put away, our job's done.

Gee, you think the man wasn't even worried about getting the posse's

renewed?

Yeah, you'd think he'd want the publicity.

It's gonna be hard to justify that fancy executive order of his without some

result to show.

Come on, let's go. All right, it's a deal.

You got a good partner there, Jake.

Better than you deserve.

Let him go.

Why is she still speaking to me?

I'm a little surprised myself.

Maybe it's because I hate people who say I told you so.

Or because I know you've already beat yourself up about it enough.

Not nearly enough.

I let a lot of things get in the way of my good judgment.

It should have never happened.

You paying for breakfast?

Sure.

Hello?

Where's Pascal?

Haven't seen him yet today.

But he left something for you.

That crafty old fox. He knew I was coming back, didn't he? He knows

Not quite everything.

Really a great deal.

Prodigal son returns.

I've got a new case for you and Sid.

Nika will fill you in.

That's it?

What do you want, a homecoming parade?

Just a few answers.

Why'd you let me get out of here so easily?

Well, perhaps I thought that I couldn't talk you out of it. Or perhaps I wanted

to keep an eye on Grant.

And what better way than to have a man on the inside?

Or you knew that Grant was going to go too far.

You're the one that said that the tech posse was an idea whose time had come.

True, but I didn't say it was a good idea.

Grant's been called on the carpet by the president, apparently.

She's reconsidering executive order B -207.

And you wouldn't have had anything to do with her little change of heart, would

you?

Put Cardigan back on the payroll.

Dock him for his little leave of absence, of course.

Of course.

Well, I didn't agree to come back yet.

True.

So what do we got?