Luminary

Episode 41 - Smooth Criminal

Hanji's van parks in the front of the hotel and Primo gets out first.

Primo: Come, the rest of our crew are waiting.

He proceeds to enter before Hanji can even reply.

She follows soon after, wondering why he never said anything about these other members beforehand. Going upstairs, she arrives on the second floor and opens the door, Hanji sees Emily and Harper playing blackjack.

Primo: Girls, our last team member arrived.

Harper looked at her brother then the new girl.

Harper: Good. Now we can get ready.

Emily quickly swapped the king of hearts out for her 6 of aces without Harper noticing.

Emily: Royal Flush baby!

Primo: Didn't know you could play blackjack with only two people.

He shakes his head and focuses.

Primo: First, Hanji, sorry for not telling you that we would have more people on the job's description. Those two literally joined the crew yesterday.

Hanji: That's fine, as long as the job is the same.

Primo placed a Tablet on the table and showed the girls the image of a large building.

Primo: The Ritz-Carlton Berlin. 5 Stars Hotel. Our friend LaChance, the local Saisem officer, will be staying there tonight.

He smiles at the girls

Primo: A client called me some days ago with Intel, word from the client is that our Dragon will sell secret Saisem plans to the IBI and defect.

Harper immediately gets angry at this, she wasn't part of Saisem anymore, but still worked for them long enough to have a distaste for defectors.

Especially those who committed atrocities and wanted to leave as if nothing happened.

Harper: Ugh... Can't let that happen.

Emily: And he wanted us dead just for trying to steal a fancy car... Ha, the hypocrite.

Hanji then looked confused.

Hanji: I thought you said dragons are bullet proof?

Primo: Now, that's the thing. Our job is to steal his secret Saisem information, not kill him. The coward knows the IBI will come sooner or later, if he doesn't have a bargaining chip, he'll be forced to stay and face consequences.

Emily: What do we do with the info though?

Primo: We give it to the client and the client pays us.

Harper: Who's the client? I don't want us to be double crossed.

Primo: Never got the name. But you know how this works--

He remembered that Harper knows nothing about street life due to her corporate career.

Harper: No, I don't know how this works.

She realized how much of herself she had lost to that hell.

Emily: Bet it's some IBI Agents who are just too lazy to do it themselves.

Hanji didn't really care, as long as it got her to where she needed to be.

Primo: So, here's the plan. We have a reserved room in that hotel on the same night Mr LaChance will be around.

Harper: None of us together would be able to pay for a room there for even half an hour...