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“Yes.”
“Is there anything else I can help you with?”
“No, thank you.”
“Very good, Sir, and have a good day.”
As the customer left the manager’s office, Tom and Paul came
in.
“Great. You did great,” Tom acknowledged. “There will be
nine more, and I will be back to retrieve the pictures.”
“Oh, by the way, this is for you,” Tom said giving the man-
ager a package.
“Thank you, Sir.”
Tom and Paul decided to have brunch after leaving the bank
and noticing their guard trailing them.
“The plan had worked,” Tom thought, “and it was worth all
the planning.”
Each operative would bring the key to the manager who had
a hidden camera set up by Tom to photograph him or her. Then they were led to the secure area and given access to a security drawer. In that oversized briefcase they received were all the components to their link with Corin’s plan. Each box contained a laptop computer, DVD, floppy disks, a printer, fax machine, a codename, domestic and offshore bank account information, a secure email account, instructions on what each item was for and $100,000cash to start them off.
Tom was very careful to pick the bank that was very crowded, a manager that was old, and surroundings that looked very rich. He thought about how each operative reminded him of himself once upon a time and realized that he was changing very quickly, actually starting to care for others. It was scarier than being a loner. Enlisting the killers took three days to complete and went without a hitch. Each killer had been given preprogrammed soft- ware with simple instructions. Now it was just another piece of the program that had to be fine-tuned.
When Tom and Paul returned to the cabin, they noticed that the other programmers looked slightly uneasy though they tried