The Cop And The Criminal

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TOKYO

"So, was anyone going to ever tell me about Jakob?" Kassidy asks as she, Letty, and Mia walk down the streets of Tokyo.

"Back when Dom got out of prison and made Jakob leave," Letty explains as Mia gives a nod of encouragement. "Dom made us all swear to never speak of Jakob again."

"It was almost as if Jakob had never existed," Mia says with a frown as she thinks about her brother. "I figured Dom would have at least told you about him."

"Sadly no, he didn't. But I guess I understand what Dom meant when he told me that sometimes in life we make choices and we never look back because if we do look back then the choices will haunt us for the rest of our lives," Kassidy explains as Mia squeezes her arm in an attempt to comfort her.

"I think this is it," Letty says as she walks over to a boarded up garage.

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," Kassidy says with a shrug as she follows Letty deeper into the garage.

"It doesn't make any sense," Mia says while looking around. "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 Kassidy and Letty into what appears to be an office as Letty lets out a laugh.

"Don't mock it," Letty says 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," Kassidy suggests as she starts 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 Kassidy. "And they never... They never crossed paths unless..."

"Gisele," Kassidy says as she looks over at Mia with a look of realization. "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 a nod as she looks at the information. "Mission spikes going back to Mexico."

"Which is where Gisele was working when she met me, Dom, and Brian," Kassidy explains as Letty walks over to Mia, who looks up at them in shock. "Gisele's gotta be the link."

"Leave it to Mr. Nobody to confuse everyone," Letty says as it starts to make sense. "This place is a dead end. Let's get out of here."

"I'll check in with Tej and Roman," Mia says as she pulls up the contact labeled MOUTH on her phone, causing Kassidy to laugh when she sees the name used for her brother.

"This place is a dead end," Letty says as she sets a bowl of food in front of Mia.

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

"If he has all the information we do, probably," Kassidy answers her with a shrug, causing Mia to lightly shake her head.

"I never told Dom..." Mia admits as she looks up at Letty "I stayed in touch with him for a while after what happened." Letty raises her eyebrows in question as she eats. "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."

"I did what I had to do," Mia responds with a nod of her head.

"Yeah," Kassidy states in understanding as she looks at her beer bottle as she gets a flash of her killing Rhodes.

"How about you? How are you both doing?" Mia questions after she takes in Kassidy'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."

"It's crazy how you do not realize how much you rely on that chaos until you don't have it anymore," Kassidy agrees with Letty as she looks up from her beer bottle to Mia. "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 both will always be my sisters," Mia tells her with a caring smile.

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

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

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

"What is it?" Mia asks while Kassidy slides the postcard over to her as Letty notices what had caught Kassidy's eye.

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

"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," Kassidy finishes for her while pointing up to a Mexican flag that is in the window of an apartment.

"No way," Mia says with a smile as she looks up at the flag. None of them noticing that they are being watched by multiple people.