"Careful, I scratch and bite." Her face inches from his, patiently waiting for him to give in.
But, he doesn't give in, not yet. He takes one step closer and bends down to whisper in her ear, "you'll beg and crawl too.... I promise."
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Jisoo accepts the temporary posting in Lyon when she's asked, because four months away from Italy seems like a great idea. And it is. It might be. After the Vitale issue and their failed attempts at catching the real culprit, a getaway from Milan is needed, very much needed. Before posting She tries to dust off all the French she learned before she got the job. It's hard. People are more likely to speak English than they are to speak Italian, and her brain hurts trying to translate from multiple languages in her head.
She spends the next four months working with a senior agent to build a case against this British magnate who's laundering money through multiple shell corporations and essentially, as she discovers, driving up the value of his goods by selling them from one company to another. When they arrest him in Monaco jisoo is not present, but it doesn't make it any less satisfying.
She almost doesn't want to go back to Milan when her time is up and the case is closed.
When Jisoo gets back to Milan, there's a layer of dust in her apartment, but nothing else has changed, really.
Her first day back at the office, Agent Dara is there to greet her with a smile. There's comfort in that. She learns that things have been relatively quiet around here while she's been gone. No mob murders or wars. Not so much as a transaction out of place. She's grateful.
She realizes that her gratitude is born from not wanting to miss anything. She came here to bring down the mafia. She would've been disappointed if something had happened and she wasn't able to be part of it.
And, annoyingly, she feels a little safer now that things have died down and she's been out of town a bit. She's no longer worried about the Moretti's having a hit out on her. Between Jacob's words and her rejecting RM's offer, she can't imagine she's terribly popular.
It seems they've gone back to keeping their house cleaning quiet. Because does she actually believe there've been no killings in the months she's been away? Absolutely not.
If there's nothing else Jisoo has learned in the last year, it's that mafia crimes are fairly well-hidden. If there's a body in the street, it's because they want it to be there. They want it to be found. Or because they're reacting to something in the moment without time to plan.
Jisoo almost admires it. The way everything is orchestrated and choreographed and steeped in deeper meaning and symbolism. Or she would if she weren't so desperate to put a stop to it. And it's easier to track them down when they're leaving breadcrumbs. Isn't it?
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She's practically relegated to desk duty because there's just not a whole lot happening. She doesn't mind it. She likes investigative work and building case files. She doesn't hate how mindless it is to sift through pages and pages of phone records, banking information, data sets. She monitors internet mentions and social media accounts. She assists with the arrest of an Italian businessman who's wanted in Australia for sex crimes. She helps with the extradition of a Swedish woman accused of swindling banks out of millions. There's an American student who's managed to do something with crypto currency that he absolutely shouldn't be able to do.
