The Great Art Heist

Case Not Closed

Shannon's POV:

Nolan & I are at the Mausoleum of Hadrian, trying to blend in with the crowd surrounding the FBI agents as they investigate the bejeweled Cleopatra egg on display, one of them being Special Agent John Hartley from the FBI's BAU.

Hartley: "Do you have thermal sensors in this room?"

Director: "Of course we do."

Hartley: "Show it to me."

One of the security guards hands Hartley a tablet displaying the thermal sensors' reading of the room.

Director: "You're wasting our time. What, may I ask, are you looking for?"

Hartley: "Well, you see, Cleopatra's first egg is covered in 18-karat gold. And gold reflects radiation. That egg should be reflecting the heat in this room. It should be red, not blue."

Director: "It's probably just an error in the thermal sensor."

Hartley: "Well, there's only one way to find out.-*to kid*-Hey, sorry, big man, but there's no food or drink in the museum.-*takes kid's soda can*-Thank you."

Director: "No, no, no, wait a moment. What do you think you're doing?"

Das: "Relax, it's fine. He knows what he's doing."

Hartley pours the soda onto the egg, revealing it as the fake one Nolan & I replaced the original with.

Das: "Seal the room. Now!"

The guards do so as Nolan & I attempt to escape, with Hartley hot on our tail. After evading Hartley's grasp twice, Nolan changes into a red suit jacket and puts on a tie while I ditch the bottom half of my dress, underneath which I'm wearing black leggings, and remove the sleeves to make it easier for me to move around. Then, we run into Inspector Das, turn around, and place a smoke bomb behind us to allow us to disappear from her line of sight, only to run right past Hartley. We then run into a group of security guards.

Guard (Translation): "They are here. Send in reinforcements."

We then rush into a room with large scaffoldings and quickly yet steadily up them to escape the guards. One of the guards grabs Nolan by his jacket, but Nolan wraps the jacket around the guard's arm and uses it to knock the guard into and tie him to part of the scaffolding. Then. We climb up the sides and detach parts of it to slow the guards down, but two of them catch up to us and corner us.

Guard (Translation): "They're on the scaffolding. We're gonna need more-"

I kick a cart towards the guard on my side while Nolan detaches part of the floor to lose the guard on his side. He then takes my hand, and I hold tightly onto his waist as he swings us on a rope to get to the next floor. Once there, we detach the side ladder to evade the guard climbing it when another guard grabs me from behind. Out of surprise and on instinct, I turn and shove him away, sending him over the edge as I grab his tie to give to Nolan to replace the original that's come undone. We then detach the scaffolding from the floor and climb over the edge just before it crashes, only for Hartley to appear and hold us at gunpoint.

Nolan: *chuckles* "Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa."

Hartley: "Ah." *tuts*

Me: "Jesus, you scared us. We know him, right, honey?"

Nolan: "Yeah, this is the slow bald guy that's been chasing us."

Me: "Right."