The Cop And The Criminal

92.9

"The firewall on this old thing is actually pretty good. But, you know, port scan, UDP message peek, pop to root shell, and," Ramsey explains to the team after they had all gathered in the main room. "Say hello to Project Aries." The screen behind her starts to show the full device that the piece they had found goes to as she tips on her computer.
"What is it?" Mia asks as she looks at the screen confused.
"It's what we got from Mr. Nobody's plane. Or at least part of it," Letty answers as she looks from the screen to Mia.
"Aries was designed to override and assimilate anything that runs on code. Any computer anywhere. If it operates on zeros and ones, it's vulnerable," Ramsey explains as the function of the device shows behind her on the screens. "Aries can own it."
"It can weaponize anything," Tej says as he explains a little deeper. "Someone could burn your house down with your refrigerator if they wanted to."
"Oh, so, now my refrigerator's gonna kill me?" Roman asks as he looks between the two.
"It could be made to," Ramsey answers him with a nod.
"How about my George Foreman Grill or foot massager?" Roman asks in a sarcastic manner before laughing.
"Do you know how it feels to create something that could end the world?" Ramsey asks as she looks at Roman.
"No," Roman answers as he glances around at everyone.
"Well, I do," Ramsey tells him while Kassidy smiles at Roman's shock that Ramsey zeroed him out. "And this will. If you take Aries and upload it to a satellite, it'll spread like a virus. Then it'll be a matter of time before someone can control any weapon system... traditional, nuclear, stuff we haven't even seen yet... and just point it wherever they want. Jakob reboots the world order within minutes."
"Ares is the god of war, right?" Tej says as he looks at Ramsey before looking at everyone else. "If Jakob gets his hands on this, he'll be the god of damn near everything."
"Because of how dangerous it was, the Aries prototype was recovered and split into two halves by Mr. Nobody. Both of which are worthless without the activation key," Ramsey explains as the screens move with her explanation. "Jakob now has one of the pieces. He'll be going after the other half next. As for the key, it's vanished."
"So we find it," Dom says which causes everyone to look at him. "If we're gonna beat Jakob to it, we're gonna have to split up." Dom looks from Roman over to Tej. "Roman, Tej, I know a couple of guys operating out of Germany that could get us anything we need."
"I'm on it," Roman says with a nod.

"Wait, there's one more thing," Tej says which gains everyone's attention. "Mr. Nobody's transmission had one name connected to the key. You guys are gonna want to brace yourselves for this." Tej types on his computer before Han's profile is pulled up on the screen.
"No way," Kassidy says as everyone looks at the screen in shock.
"That's exactly what I said," Tej says with a bob of his head.
"So you're saying Han's death is connected to all of this?" Roman asks as he points at the screen with Han's picture.
"He has to have something to do with it," Mia says as she looks at him with a shrug.
"I'll look into it," Kassidy offers as she looks over at Tej. "Tej, can you send me all the files you have on Han?"
"Yeah," Tej says before he gets to work on that.
"I'll go with you," Mia says as Letty nods in agreement.

"Kass," Dom says as he remembers the postcard that he had pulled out of the drawer in their garage. "I got this the day Han died."
"Mexico," Kassidy says as she recognizes the cross and place.
"Check the postmark," Dom tells her which causes her to flip the postcard to reveal a Tokyo, Japan postmark. "Whatever he was up to, it ended here."
"Tokyo," Kassidy says in slight shock since that is where Han died.
"What are you gonna do about Jakob?" Mia asks as she looks at her brother.
"I'm gonna find him," Dom answers her, causing Mia to look at him worriedly because she was unsure what lengths Dom would go to, to find Jakob.
"How?" Letty asks with a raised eyebrow.
"An old friend," Dom answers with a slight smirk, causing Mia, Kassidy, and Letty to look at him confused.

A door buzzes as Dom's cell door is opened before he follows the other prisoners down the hall.

"Money is an illusion," Tego Leo says in Spanish as he works on a car.
"Illusion? You got illusion lying around. I'll take it!" Rico Santos replies as he shakes his head.
"Illusion," Tego argues before speaking in Spanish. "I'm telling you, it's real!" Dom smiles as he looks over at them from the car that he is working on.
"Yo, what do you think?" Santos asks as he looks at Dom. "Es una ilusión o es real?"
"It doesn't matter. It's all about how you choose to see it," Dom answers as he shakes his head.
"Shit. I told you I was right," Both say at the same time while looking at each other, causing Dom to smile.
"I'm Tego Leo," Tego says as he looks over at Dom.
"Rico Santos," Santos introduces himself while looking at Dom as well.
"Dom. What are you guys in for?" Dom asks after introducing himself.
"Driving while brown," Tego answers him with a frown.
"That and we also blew up a bank," Santos argues as he switches back to Spanish.
"That's not the point! They stopped us because we were brown not because we blew up a bank," Tego argues as well.
"Okay. You're right" Santos says as they work the car.
"Woo, para, para, para. You see that? Hairline crack in the fuel line. Air gets in there, you got a lean condition," Tego says as he points to the fuel line of the car that Dom is working on.
"Lean condition?" Dom asks as he looks up at Tego confused.
"Old trick pit crews use to throw a race. But that crack opens up? And a spark gets near it? Fire bomb!" Tego explains in Spanish as Dom starts to remember Jakob being the one under the hood of their dad's car before he died.