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Tristin pov*

To day I wake up and get ready for the office (outfit up top^). When I get there we were still waiting on Mac and Jack. They then finally get their lazy butts here so we could start.

"All right, let's get to work. Over the past two years, five federal buildings in the U.S. have been attacked, killing 28 people and wounding hundreds more. Explosives analysis from the most recent attack links these incidents to a group called Division 77." Thornton said

"D-77? Heard stories about them in prison. They're like mercenaries or something, right?" Riley said.

"Terrorists for hire. Ex-insurgents and extremists who traded in their politics for cold hard cash." Mac explained.

" They're highly trained and very careful. Every member hidden by multiple false identities. Every expense paid for by shell corporations." Thornton informed

"- So how do we find these guys? -" I pop in.

"We don't. Not directly, but by digging into their shell corps, the FBI followed D-77's money, and it all leads back to one man.. Hedge fund golden boy Ralph Kastrati." Thornton said bringing up a picture of a chubb-ish man with curly brown hair.

"Oh, that is a punch-face." Jack said.

"Excuse me?"Thornton asked.

"Oh, you heard me. Some dudes, they just have this face that really needs to be punched." Jack answered.

"My mom dated a guy like that once." Riley relied smirking, I try and hide my laugh with my hand.

(Jack scoffs)" So we don't know how to find them, but we do know where Ralph is?"

"He fled the U.S in 2015 to avoid trial for 561 counts of securities fraud, but he's just been located hiding out in the tropical tax haven of Labuan, Malaysia, making millions managing D-77's money. If we can combine the FBI intel with everything that Ralph knows about their financials we may be able to track them down before their next attack."

"Well, shouldn't we just let the Malaysian cops pick him up?" Jack asked.

" We believe D-77 has informants within the Malaysian government. If D-77 hides Ralph before we can get to him, we're gonna lose our only chance to stop them." Thornton informs.

"So we can't go the official route." I ask.

"Which leaves the unofficial route: us." Mac finished.

"Yeah."

"Yeah, okay, I want a piece of that." Jack stated.

Labuan, Malaysia

(rap music playing) "Are you kidding me, bro? Even if I wasn't a wanted man, I'd still be living in Lubuan, yo.I'm like God down here. Nah, bigger than God. Kanye. (laughs)" Ralph said over the phone while we watch him.

(over monitor in our van): " I'm telling you, you got to come join me, brah. Hitting the hottest clubs, the finest honeys, making more cheddar than any of you hedge fund chumps back home." Ralph says.

"Is it safe?" His friend said.

"Listen to you. Of course it's safe. I just fired my bodyguards and pocketed their salaries, yo. Trust me, Uncle Sam don't have a clue where I am."

"I mean, unless being parked outside your house watching you on thermal and visible and tracking your GPS counts as having a clue." Riley replied.

"Guy's place looks like a Kardashian exploded. Straight cheese." Jack whined looking through the binoculars into his house.

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