Evidence board

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Safehouse
West Berlin
10:40 pm
February 23 1981

When I reach the last step, I can see the team talking about some information about the Russian government.
"There's been a surge in Russian chatter in the last 48 hours. The CIA and the DoD are tapping their inside sources for anything substantial, but so far there's no leads on Perseus." - says Adler.
Near him there are Sims amd Lazar. At the center of the Safehouse there is a big board with three clocks and some papers. A woman is stranding in front of it. She has black and short hair and doesn't wear an uniform like us, but a pair of jeans and a jacket. Who is she?
"MI6 has come up empty handed as well."-says the woman with a British accent. I guess she isn't American.
I don't want to interrupt them so I quietly stay on the steps.
"We'll have to start somewhere, so we're going back here... "- says Adler indicating a place on the board."Vietnam, 1958. One of our closet encounters with Perseus."
"Shit. Some parts of me always knew that mission wasn't done with us." - says Sims and goes away from the table he was sitting on.
"Pull up everything we've got on the attack in Da Nang and run it past Park. She'll cross reference it with MI6." - says Adler.
"We're looking for code names, encrypted transmissions, Russian activity with the NVA, anything that could be a lead." - elencs the woman.
"You got it."- responds Lazar.
Then they all go back with their work, so it's not going to take long before someone will notice me.
"Bell, this is where you come in." - says Adler.
He's staring at me. How long did he notice I was there?
"We need the best of the CIA in SOG, and that's exactly why I requested you again. Head to the evidence board. We'll retrace out steps thought Da Nang. Anything that could give us a lead on Perseus."
Right, Perseus. That's why I'm here. But I can remember only this, and not what happened to me before.
The others, hearing Adler calling my name, turn around.
"Here you are!" - says Woods coming to hug me. I hug him too.
His beard tickles my face but I don't mind it at all: it's great to have a family who cares about me.
"Your bandana is always with you, don't it?" - I jokes.
"Oh, so you remember that!" - he seems surprised.
"Uh, what?"- I ask confused.
He always wears that bandana, why I don't have to remember that?
Adler watch him badly. What's going on?
Then comes Mason followed by Lazar and Sims.
"Everything alright with your wound?" - asks Mason.
"It hurts a little."
"Don't worry. Adler sewed your stitches. He's a good doctor.Don't you Adler?"-jokes Sims.
Everyone laugh, except Adler.
Lazar makes a sign with his head to say hi.
The woman, Park, comes near to me. "So you are the famous Bell everyone are talking about. Nice to meet you, I'm park. I'm here from MI6 to help you in this mission."
She holds out his hand, expecting I'm going to tighten it.
Where I saw this woman before? She's familiar to me. And this voice, I already heard that.
A feeling of jealous invades my thoughts: why my team need her when I'm already a good resource? Why they let her in? Many people betrayed us in the past, we can't trust nobody.
And she act like she knows something that I don't.
Park notices I'm starting at her and retracts the hand.
"So, Bell." - Adler cut the embarrassing moment showing me the board. "How we have to decodificate this?"
I look at all those papers embarrassed.
"I... actually I don't remember very well what happened." - I say embarrassed.
Everyone look at each other and this make me want to dig an hole and bury me in.
"What does it mean you can't remember? In the last mission we had to neutralize Arash and Qasim. Those two had Americans ostages. Hudson gave the permission to act. You, Woods, Mason and me captured Qasim in Amsterdam. He told to us that Arash was in Turkey. Then we flew there and before we killed Arash-"
"You killed Arash." - Woods interrupts Adler.
"Before I killed Arash he told something about a man named Perseus. And about a plan wich is almost complete. We need to find out what he wants to do."
"And how I get this?" - I roll up my uniform, showing the bandages.
"When we tried to capture him Arash shooted you. Right there."- explains patiently Adler.
"That son of a bitch."
"Don't think about him, Bell, think about Perseus. Alright everyone, go back to do what you were working on. We've got a job to do."
Suddenly I remember everything.

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