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TOKYO

Mia, Roselyn, and Letty look around for the garage that is listed on Han's file before finding the garage all boarded up. Letty pulls a board off of the window on the door before looking through the busted window with her flashlight. Letty reaches her arm through the busted window, unlocking the door.

"Han's old shop," Mia says as they look around the garage that hasn't been touched by anyone beside scavengers since Han's death. "God! It looks like this place has been picked over a thousand times."

"Gotta start somewhere," Roselyn responds with a shrug of her shoulders as she walks deeper into the garage with her gun raised.

"It doesn't make any sense," Mia says as she looks around while Roselyn finishes making sure that there is no one else there. "I mean, Han ends up in Tokyo and he's supposed to have something to do with the key? But police records make it sound like he was running around with a bunch of small time crooks."

Mia follows Letty into what appears to be an office as Letty lets out a laugh.

"Don't mock it," Letty replies as she looks at the stuff on a desk. "That's how we started. Maybe Han was looking for a change of scenery after Gisele died." Letty start looking through a cabinet while Mia looks at the papers on the floor. "People mourn in different ways."

"How did Mr. Nobody get connected with Han?" Mia asks as she stands up to look at Letty. "And they never... They never crossed paths unless..."

"Gisele," Roselyn answers as she puts it all together while she looks over at her sister. "She's former Mossad." Mia pulls out her phone to look at the information that Tej had sent them. "Mr. Nobody is a spy. They could have run in the same circles."

"There's Mossad clearance all over the files Mr. Nobody had on Han," Mia says with an impressed nod as she looks at the information. "Mission spikes going back to Mexico, which is where Gisele was working when she met Dom and Brian." Letty walks over to Mia, who looks up at her in shock. "Gisele's gotta be the link."

"Leave it to Mr. Nobody to confuse everyone," Letty remarks as it all starts to make sense.

"This place is a dead end. Let's get out of here," Roselyn suggests as she kicks an empty box, causing dust to fly.

"I'll check in with Tej and Roman," Mia says as she pulls up the contact labeled MOUTH on her phone.

"Nice, in mine it says LOUD MOUTH," Roselyn comments as she sees the contact name for Roman, causing Mia to laugh.




"This place is a dead end," Letty says as she sets a bowl of food in front of Mia, since they had been wondering around looking for anything before deciding to eat.

"Do you think Jakob could be onto the Han connection?" Mia asks as Letty sits down across from her with Roselyn beside her.

"If he has all the information we do, most definitely," Roselyn answers her with a nod while Letty shrugs, causing Mia to lightly shake her head.

"I never told Dom..." Mia admits as she looks up at Letty and Roselyn. "I stayed in touch with him for a while after what happened." Letty raises her eyebrows in question as she eats while Roselyn nods because she had too. "He was over at Buddy's for about a year, and then... he was gone with a message not to follow. But after he disappeared, I was so desperate to find him that I would've... would've done anything." Mia starts to pick at her food. "I even broke into a police archive, but I didn't find anything."

"You what?" Letty asks her in shock at the revelation. "You were like 16."

"Rose helped me but I did what I had to do," Mia responds with a nod of her head while Roselyn holds her hands up in surrender, causing Letty to lightly smile.

"Yeah," Letty states in understanding as she looks at her beer bottle.

"How about you? How are you doing?" Mia questions after she takes in Letty's reaction. "It's a change of pace, huh?"

"Just as I was remembering..." Letty starts explaining after letting out a small laugh. "Who I was, everything changed. It slowed down." Mia takes a bite of her food as she remembers what it was like when she and Brian first settled down. "There's peace for me in the chaos. It's like I... I need to face the world head-on or something to feel alive." Letty looks from her beer bottle to up at Mia and Roselyn. "Seeing Little Brian hiding in a hole because we had unexpected company... that got to me. We never used to hide."

"Hey, Dom's my brother, but you will always be my sister," Mia tells her with a caring smile.

"Amen to that," Roselyn says in agreement as she raises her beer.

"Funny how we all have secrets," Letty replies with a smile while glancing around before something catches her eye.

"What?" Mia asks as she notices Letty focused on something behind her.

"You got to be kidding me," Letty says as she pulls the postcard out of her jacket.

"What is it?" Roselyn asks while Letty slides the postcard over to her.

"Remember what Han used to say about Tokyo?" Letty asks as she stands up before Mia and Roselyn follow her.

"You mean how in all the old Westerns, cowboys would make a run for the border to get away from the law, how Tokyo was his..." Mia answers as she looks at the postcard in confusion.

"Mexico," Roselyn finishes for her while Letty points up to a Mexican flag that is in the window of an apartment on the second floor.

"No way," Mia says with a smile as she looks up at the flag.

"Han's alive," Roselyn confirms her suspicions whether Mia and Letty believed it or not.

Though, none of them notice that they are being watched.

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