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TOKYO

Mia 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 but scavengers since Han's death. "God! It looks like this place has been picked over a thousand times."

"Gotta start somewhere," Letty says as she walks 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 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." Letty starts looking through a cabinet while Mia looks at the papers on the floor. "People mourn in different ways."

"Letty, 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," Letty suggests as she looks over at Mia. "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 Moni, Dom, and Brian." Letty walks over to Mia as she looks up at Letty 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.

"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," Letty answers her with a shrug, causing Mia to lightly shake her head.

"I never told Dom or Moni..." Mia admits as she looks up at Letty "I stayed in touch with him and Karlotta for a while after what happened." Letty raises her eyebrows in question as she eats, since Karlotta would not even speak to her after everything. "They were over at Buddy's for about a year, and then... they were gone with a message not to follow. But after they disappeared, I was so desperate to find them 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," 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. "Seeing Sarah hiding in a hole because we had unexpected company... that got to me. We never used to hide, even when we knew what it put at risk."

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

"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?" Mia 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 follows 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," Letty 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. Neither of them noticing that they were being watched.

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