James Choi:
"Special Agent James Choi, FBI." James shows his Bureau I.D. rather than offering his hand. He made sure that the lawyer got a glimpse of his pistol as he withdrew the credentials.
"I'll cut right to the chase Mr. Coel. Three assassinations of U.S. military veterans in the same three day period and you're the one common denominator. As a matter of fact, you spoke to one of the victims just seconds before he was killed. That's such a coincidence that it's clearly not. Now, we have our theory; I wanted to take you in immediately but the good detective here convinced me to give you a chance to explain yourself. So, Mr. Coel, your office or mine?"
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Tegyrius:
Coel, Young, and Abbey, PLLC
Interrogation occurs.
David Coel knows what happens to soft white-collar professionals in federal prison, or at least he believes he does. He very much wants to avoid that fate.
He is the executor of Admiral George Frye's estate. Among Frye's many possessions was a safe deposit box. Banking protocols being what they are, it has taken some time for Coel to gain access to it and work his way through the documents within. When he was certain of what he had, he contacted John Ceelen immediately, as per Frye's instructions.
John Ceelen now owns a shell company in Belize, which, in turn, holds a private island off the Belizean coast and a de Havilland Otter with the range to fly direct between there and Miami.
We are here because there was a lead based on Frye's lawyer, IIRC. Relevant posts are above.
The team really didn't know what to expect, so that's why we're armed to the teeth. A lot of this scenario has been a race against the ETs, so it's possible we might show up here and find ET's in well-established defenses, or perhaps in process of attacking these guys, or the ET's could be hot on our heels either due to the leak (which we think we've identified).
The ETs could have located this facility through whatever mechanism they first used to start hunting down these vets (PLG might be the initial source, or a source the ET's compromised along the way). Hence the worry they were already in control here. Maybe now we are ahead of them and have sufficiently plugged leaks so the ET's don't know about this place at all. Maybe some dude put a space worm in Coel's ear the minute we walked out and ET is coming for us right now.
Memory aside (and I know I've had my issues), I'd say if you're feeling confused, not quite sure if we are winning, losing, or just holding ground, and thinking the enemy might be around this corner or the next, then Teg's doing a great job running an espionage scenario!!
James Choi:
Is this just a matter of black ops compartmentalization resulting in the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing and vice versa or am I missing something?
Yeah, that's how this works right? Compartmentalization and need to know. At the point at which Grey Cell had a need to know, the folks who knew (Frye/Celeen) were either dead or unconscious.
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