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Triple Play [IC]

[sblock]I'll take a Lead (back down to 5 I believe) and a Stress for 1d4 Stress Damage: stress dmg (1d4=1) [/sblock]

"Not gonna answer me, huh?" Machete barks, slamming the screwdriver right through the prisoner's hand.

"Does that refresh your memory?"

[sblock=Interrogation, Round Four]
Continue to use Bad Cop as a Strategy...

Intimidate Check: intimidate check (no mods) (1d20+6=10)

Wow. Another crappy roll. This interrogation may never end!
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Insight said:
[sblock]I'll take a Lead (back down to 5 I believe) and a Stress for 1d4 Stress Damage: stress dmg (1d4=1) [/sblock]

"Not gonna answer me, huh?" Machete barks, slamming the screwdriver right through the prisoner's hand.

"Does that refresh your memory?"

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That's an injury.[/sblock]

The prisoner passes out, his eyes roll back in his head, and he starts convulsing.
 

Machete dresses the wound and takes the unconscious guy back into the alley. Making sure he isn't being watched, Machete tosses the prisoner into a dumpster. Machete then burns the guy's clothes, puts the ashes into the bathroom trashbag (if it has one), wipes the place down, dumps the ashes onto the ground, and heads out.

Muttering something about the gringo, Machete walks to a payphone and calls a cab to meet him at a corner about three blocks away. The cab will take Machete to a store about 2-3 blocks from the senator's house (or more if necessary or there isn't a store or anything that close), and hoof it from there to the senator's crib.
 
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Veins, after done observing the twins and discharging them to a temporary room near the Capitol, heads out towards the estate. There are Maryland state police, FBI, and secret service officers collecting at the scene, and a perimeter is already being set up.

Saint and Cover Girl are already there, and already had a chance to comb through some of the scraps. They discover some licensing papers and a burn remnant of a wallet identifying the driver as a Sayid Bajadi.

Veins heads into the house and starts looking through Cassandra's room. It's mostly the sort of thing you might expect of a pampered college student. He is about to give up when he notices a small book stuffed in the back of her closet... it appears to be a diary.
 

Reading through the diary is... interesting to say the least. The diary is rife with details--blackmail quality details--of men she and Katherine have had relations with. These men, from the descriptions in the diary, consist of security personnel, low-level Bostonian lawyers, and the occasional son of a congressman.

As interesting as that is, flipping through, the diary turns a bit more serious. It details an amateur investigation of accounting at Atlantic Consulting Inc. She sites some transactions her father made that are sited as "Research — Steel Import Tariff, Impact on Northeast Manufacturers." An explanatory note by Cassandra questions what her father had to do with the steel industry. She notes that there were two payments, in equal amounts. The dates might not seem conspicuous, except she has a note "Mom?" after the dates.

A quick check of the intel file confirms: the payments are before and after her mother’s death.

The diary’s last entry reads, "I’m taking them all out. This one’s for you, mom."
 

Oh hell, Veins rings through to Cleo, or whoever's likely to be near the girls (but not Machete - I mean I like the man but he's not exactly quite sane).
"It's Cassandra, I've got evidence - and I get the impression she's mad enough to either start shooting or have a bomb on her person."
He goes on to explain his findings in (very) brief.
"You need to arrest her, but do it quickly and before she knows what's going on."
 

After getting Veins to start at the beginning, relating his reasons for suspecting this is somehow related to the daughter and showing her the diary, comes up with a better idea.

"We can't just arrest Cassandra. For one thing, it's not exactly within the remit of our cover identities to arrest our wards. Second, remember that Firefox ordered us to maintain the Senator as a UNITAS asset: screwing over his daughter isn't going to help there. Thirdly, you're forgetting that the people intercepted by Leadfoot and our pet psychopath were targeting the twins, which suggests that they may not have been responsible. Which leads to four, what one twin knows the likelihood is that the other does too, so... Oh bugger! One of you call Leadfoot and have her and the nutter get around to the girlfriend's place. She's either the person behind today's escapades or the next target. If she's not dead already."

As that call goes through, Cleo ushers the other two back to their car, leaving the crime scene in the hands of Hicks, who had been one of the Agents with Veins. She's on the phone herself, setting up a safe house with her contact. "We'll have somewhere secure to debrief them in about 8 hours," she goes on, taking shotgun. "Once that's set up and we've got everyone together, the nutter will set off the fire alarm and kill the hotel power supply, giving us a pretext to move them to where we'll be undisturbed.

"The way I see it, the Senator arranges for the missus to be bumped off. No argument there. But I don't think the daughter or daughters are out to kill him: it's just not satisfying enough. Destroying him, publically humiliating him; given their training, that's the way I'd go if I were them."


[sblock=Contact's check]Networking/Contact (1d20+6=19)
Networking/Contact (2d6=7)

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Bonnie gets the call from Cleo and listens to her theory. At the end of it, she attempts to sum it up.

"What?!"

After taking a deep breath (and preventing the car from flying off the road in a sharp curve), Bonnie answers.

"That's...wow. I think I kinda lost track here - whose side are we on now?"
 

"The same side we've always been on: that of the people writing our paychecks. We'll sit on the Senator and the twins until you get back, but don't hesitate to call if there's trouble."
 


Into the Woods

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