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INVESTIGATIONS: IN AND OUT
By: Christian Edlund
It is the year
2010 and a rainy afternoon in
In a large office
in the Hama Corp, Building, is Akira Hama, the president of Hama Corp and
Oyabun of the Hama clan sitting at his large desk, staring at a photograph of
his wife and son, who both died during a war between the Hama family and the
Triad: Yeoh. The door opens to his office and four sub-units enter. They bow
and wait for his orders. Without facing his men, he gives them new
instructions.
"I want you
to find Cheng Yeoh, and bring him to me... don't fail me"
The four
sub-units bow once again and leave. Akira stands up and walks up to a glass
statue witch are standing on one knee, bowing its head and reaches its arms
above its head. In the hands lies a Katana sword. He takes the sword, looks at
the sharp shiny blade.
"You will
pay for what you have done, Chen Yeoh. I swear it"
The storage
building has allotted of shelves and carbon boxes. One of the doors opens, as
the people inside makes way for a large truck. As soon as the truck is inside,
the door closes. Out from the truck is a large white man, dressed in an overall
coming, he is followed by two china men. One of the Chinese walks up to the
white man and bows.
"Welcome Mr.
Biggs. It's an honor to meet you".
"Likewise,
how’s it going?”
"Everything
is finished".
"Excellent,
put it in the truck and get out of here".
The china men
obey but without taking notice of the four dark clothed figures, climbing down
from the ceiling, in one of the dark corners. The “Shadows” draws their swords
and moves forward. The people near the truck, is finished loading the crates
and boxes, and are standing around talking. A shuriken - a small sharp through
weapon, is flying through the air, hitting a man in the hand. The man screams
in pain, the second later everybody fires his or her guns, left and right.
Biggs is staying close to the truck, with his gun ready to fire. At the same
time as most of the guns runs out of ammo, the “Shadows” rushes forward slaying
the people quickly with their swords. When one of the “Shadows”, comes closer
Biggs, he starts shooting, missing all shots but one. The bullet hits the
“Shadow” in the leg. Another “Shadow” has climbed up on the trucks trailer,
waiting for the perfect moment to take Biggs out. Quick and silenced he jumps
down from the truck and sneaks up behind Biggs who doesn’t take notice of him.
The sharp sword blade rises over the “Shadow’s” head, ready for the strike of
death.
It’s nighttime
when the door opens to a penthouse in Southern parts of
Hours later
Carrie-Ann lies more on the floor than in the bed, with only a tank top, panties
and one red sock on her body. Next to her stands, a screen phone on a small
bench and it has been beeping for a long time. C-A grunts and does not want to
answer. After several more minutes of beeping, she crawls over to the other
side of the bed. She hits the screen phones button, opening the Communication
frequency. Still having her long brown hair in front of her face, she answers.
"....Uhm.........Yeah?"
"Well good
morning to you to", grunts her chief William Travis, "Slept
well"?
"............Uhm,
not really.....Aum... what time is it?”
"It's high
noon".
"...Uhm
...already"? She pulls her hair away from her face. With tiered eyes, she
looks at him. "When where I suppose to be in your office"?
"
"Nine am...
Uhm... I'll be there as soon as I have had a cup of coffee..."
"You can do
what ever you want, as long as you are here within ten minutes,
Lieutenant".
"Could we
make it like fifteen?”
"Get your
ass over here, NOW"!
The screen turns
black. Carrie-Ann sighs.
"It does
going to be a long day....”
She puts on a
light blue blouse, a knee long skirt, high heel shoes and her marine blue
jacket. She takes her car keys, her CIA badge and leaves home.
The door opens to
William Travis office. In enters Carrie-Ann, drinking coffee from a paper cup.
The office has a few pictures of Travis family, windows toward the harbor, and
few shelves. William Travis sits at his desk. He checks his arm watch.
"I'm
impressed, a new record, and only twenty-five minutes late"!
"Look cap, I've
had a bad night, almost no sleep, the case has went in to a dead end, and I've
had no break feast either. It’s a forty-five minutes drive from my place to
here, than the traffic, the road constructions on I 56, followed by the
catholic school parade, than the fire department that got in the way. How come
that they can drive on the community lane, and I cannot? Finally yet
importantly, I had to stop a mugging on an old woman named; Rosita Rodriguez
from
"You
finished"? William asks.
"I think
so”, she thinks for a few seconds, “Yes, for now anyway".
William leans
forward, puts his hands on the desk in front of him.
"Look
Carrie-Ann shrugs
her shoulders as William continues.
"Didn't
think so... Now your new assignment is, to find out who killed our agent, and
why!"
"Okay…………”
"Last time
we heard from him, he was about to make a deal with members to a Mr. Chen Yeoh,
and we believe that the
"
"Yakuza",
Travis hands over 3 files, one about Biggs and the other the Triads and the
third abut the Yakuza families.
"Good luck!
Oh yeah, before I forget... you might need this"!
He tosses her a
book: "Instant Japanese". She looks at the book as she leaves the
office. A few meters away, she can hear her boss shouting:
"AND SHUT THE
DOOR"!
Late
afternoon is a big passenger plane landing on the New Tokyo International
airport. Two police officers meet C-A Worthington at the stairs.
“You must be
Carrie-Ann Worthington, CIA from
“Last time I
checked…”
"I hope you
have had a pleasant flight?"
"I can't
complain".
"I am Kiro
Kabayashi"... ”This is Tetsuro Izayoi, we will escort you to our head
quarters"
C-A tosses her
bag to Tetsuro.
“You can carry my
bag”.
Tetsuru looks at
Kiro who nods before they are going towards the exit. Outside the airport is a
car waiting for them.
"If you will
get in Miss Worthington, we will take you to head quarters", Kiro
continues.
"Thanks, but
I would like something to eat first...The food on the planes..."
They get into the
car, than it rolls away.
"But I
promised my captain to..."
"Listen
darling. Food, NOW"! Carrie-Ann commands.
"What ever
you say..." Kabayashi sighs. "My boss won't like the delay..."
"Well, he
won't like a grumpy Carrie-Ann Worthington either....” she interrupts.
Two hours later,
Kiro, Tetsuro and Carrie-Ann, who has satisfied her hunger, enters the office
where Yoshiaki M. Kurada is waiting. Kiro and Tetsuro bows to Yoshiaki. They
speak in Japanese to each other.
"I apologize
for our delay, Kurada-San. Our guest was hungry", Kiro explains.
"Hungry
hu"? Kurada steps up to
"You
bet" she smiles.
"Good, than
you can wipe of that ridicules grin of your face"!
He walks back to
his chair and sits down.
"I expect
you to find what you are looking for. Be quick about it".
"Yes
sir".
"That is
good, because I do not want any unwanted publicity of any kind, while you are
here, Miss Worthington. You’ll be an observer…”
“Observer”?
Carrie-Ann looks strangely at Yoshiaki. “How am I going to find the creeps that
killed my colleague, if I’m going to be a bloody observer”?
In to the office
is a slim woman coming. She’s got shoulder long hair, dressed in a t-shirt and
chinos.
“This is Kieko
Negushi, she will assist you”.
Carrie-Ann eyes
her from top to toe, giving her an "I-like-what-you're-packing" kind
of look.
“Great”.
“Low profile, do
I make myself clear"?
"As a bell
sir", she smirks.
Kieko and
Carrie-Ann walk out from the building towards Kieko’s car; silver colored Volvo
S60.
“You don’t seem
happy about your orders”.
“That’s right,
I’m not too happy about this entire mission. I don’t need a nose blower,
following me every time I wave my tail”!
“I beg you
pardon”?
“Never mind, can
we go to this warehouse, where my colleague was killed in”?
“Sure”.
The door top the
warehouse opens and Carrie-Ann and Kieko enter. The warehouse is almost empty,
only a few broken crates lying around. They start to look for clues, when they
are about to leave,
“Let’s find out
who’s missing a hand”.
“I suggest that
we have this hand analyzed, the lab rats love these things”.
“Good idea Keiko”
When Anna Yashi
is finished with the identification, she turns to her colleagues, who sit
nearby in the lab waiting.
“The hands’ owner
is defiantly our dead agent Charles Biggs.
“Defiantly” asks
C-A.
“Yes, but there’s
one thing that is beating me…”
“What’s that”?
“Miss
Worthington, take a look at the perfect cutting of the hand…”
“So precise…”
“Exactly, the
only ones who can cut this perfect are real good surgeons”.
“So, a surgeon
came to the warehouse and cut Bigg’s hand off, is that what you are saying”?
She asks sarcastic.
“Not quite… But
there are others who can…”
Akira Hama
inspects a cargo of twenty wooden crates witch has shipped in from
"This is the
best I've tasted in years”!
Akira turns to
one of his sub-units.
"You've got
any news, for me"?
"We have
caught a Chinese, Damon Ken; we believe that he is a member of the Yeoh
Family".
Akira's eyes
darken.
"Make sure
he has been taken to my office, before I am finished here”!
One of the
members bows and leaves together with three sub-units.
Carrie-Ann is
looking at some photos, as Kieko, walks up to her with another two folders.
"Here you
have the files on your agent, what we know. Here is the one on Akira
Hama".
"Akira
Hama"?
"Yes the
Yakuza leader" Kieko replies.
Carrie-Ann has an
expression on her face; witch makes her look almost crazy in excitement.
"Yakuza you
say... You know what... You are going to make an appointment with this
Carrie-Ann grabs
Kieko’s arm and drags her along as she leaves the station.
"I can't…”,
Kieko complains.
"Yes you
can...” C-A interrupts her.
"No,
Yoshiaki will fry my ass"!
Carrie-Ann stops
at the door and looks at Kieko’s ass.
"I don't
know about frying, but it could use a trim".
"Come on,
Carrie-Ann, be serious”!
"I am always
serious, when it comes to ass trimming! Look at mine, it's trimmed. By the way,
call me C-A”!
"C-Ass trimmer"?
Says Kieko.
"That was a
good one! Maybe I should quit working for the CIA and become one of those
fitness machine creators”.
The door
opens to
Damon tries to
get past the guards, without success. In to the office from the corridor enters
Akira Hama and a sumo wrestler. Akira doesn't look at the Yeoh member, as he
pastes on his way to the desk.
"What are
you going to do to me?”
"You will
find that out soon enough",
"What's your
name”?
"Damon
Khen”.
Akira plays with his
Katana.
"No, no I
beg of you”!
"BEG”?
"His
arm"!
"NO"!!
The members hold
out Damon Khen’s arm. Slowly
"Let this be
a warning. Tell Chen Yeoh, that if he does not move out from my backyard very
soon, I won't cut of his hand. TELL HIM"!
The sumo wrestler
grabs Damon and carries him in to the elevator, past the lobby to the door
where he through him out.
Meanwhile,
has C-A and Kieko exited the station and stands in front of Kieko's car.
Carrie-Ann looks around, as she drinks her coffee. She takes notice of three
punk teenagers, two boys and one girl trying to break in to a car.
"What the...
on the mid day and everything,” she runs towards them, "People have no
respect".
The teenagers
take notice of her and run of.
"HEY, STOP
YOU, CIA"!
The teenagers
rush down the street towards the center parts of the city, with Carrie-Ann
close behind them. Finally, C-A catches the girl and one of the boys close to a
restaurant.
"Caught, you
brats"!
People are
walking around on the streets; they stop to watch this foreign woman, arresting
the two teenagers. Kieko is catching up with her.
"It feels
just like home", Carrie-Ann smiles.
"Are you crazy
C-A?”
"What?”
“What can I do for
you?” the male officer asks.
Kieko shows her
id to the officer, than she tells him to book the two teenagers for breaking
into cars and running from the authority. The officer puts handcuffs on the
teenagers and leads them to his car. Kieko turns her attention to C-A.
"Carrie lets
take a walk trough the
"Sure
Kieko".
The park is
beautiful, with many beautiful trees, bushes and fountains. There are many
people in the park, walking about. As
"Pardon for
asking, but shouldn't we be going to this
"We are...
Look, you see that tall structure in front of us"?
"Ya".
"That's The
Hama Corporation building".
"Great..."
When they are
about to go inside, the big sumo wrestler stops them. Kieko and the wrestler
speak in Japanese.
"Stop, you
can't come in".
"I am
investigator Kieko Negushi", she shows him her badge, and “This is
Carrie-Ann Worthington, CIA. We want to talk to Akira Hama".
"Follow
me", the wrestler grunts.
"Charming
young lad, isn't he?” C-A mutters.
When they enter
the office, Akira Hama greets them. The women walk up to him. Kieko bows while
Carrie-Ann nods in-a-what’s-up-kind-of-way.
"So what
makes me the honor of your visit"? Asks
"My name is
Kieko Negushi, Tokyo Intel".
"Uhu... and
who is this"?
"This
is..."
"Carrie-Ann
Worthington, CIA", Carrie-Ann cuts in.
"CIA"?
She opens her
briefcase and shows Akira the photo of Biggs.
"Okay, a white
male, what has he got to do with me"?
"He's
dead", C-A fills in.
"All people
die".
"This is
Charles Biggs; he was a CIA operative working under cover. He was found dead in
a warehouse, down by the docks with his head cut of”.
Akira looks at
the picture, than at Carrie-Ann.
“I could have
arranged the murder of your friend”.
“But”? C-A asks.
“I didn’t”.
“If it wasn’t
you, than who was it”? C-A confronts him.
“It could be the
Yeoh family”, says
"You know of
them"? Negushi asks.
"Yes, they have
been trying to take control of this area of
"I'm sorry
Mr. Hama, but we have to find the one responsible for the death of our agent
and why he was killed", says
"Maybe we
can find them both, what do you say"?
After another
hour,
“Do you believe
what he told you”?
“Not for a
second… He was laying his black pants of. Besides I’m hungry, are you hungry?”
“Not really, but
I go for a snack”.
“Great, let’s
take a drive in. I’m dying for a cup of chicken noodles, than we can have a
chat with Cheng Yeoh”.
They are leaving
the building walking towards the car. Before entering the car, Carrie-Ann takes
a final glance at the buildings’ office level where Akira Hama stands by the
window. There eyes meet for a short second, before C-A gets into the car and
they drives away.
Back at the
station C-A searches the computer for files on Hama Corps, while eating her
noodles.
"Search for
all white people male or female that has any connection to the Yeoh
family"
"Time
frame" Asks the computer.
"Past four
months, begin".
The computer is
searching for a long time. Kieko Negushi sits down beside
"How's it
going"?
"It's still
searching...”
“So have you
tried to contact Yeoh, yet”? C-A asks.
“Twice, but he
can’t be reached”.
They sit and talk
for about twenty minutes, than suddenly the computer beeps.
"Great! Let
us see what we have. List all names in alphabetical order and print".
After a short
moment of work, the printer standing next to the coffee machine at the other
side of the room prints out the last page. Kieko walks over to the printer and
gets the papers; than she walks and gives them to C-A.
"It's so
many names”!
"It sure
is”.
"Lets see...
We have... Donavan Summers, a plastic expert from
"Carrie
punches up her birth dates".
"Okay, Liza
Hayz of Hama Corp. That's interesting... She is four years younger than I. ID,
nice pick. Schools: Four years at Harvard... the past two years she has been
working at Yodashy SciTech industries, witch Akira Hama own. I think I wanna
meet HER".
Liza Hayz leaves
lab#IV, in the Yodashy building. She heads towards lab # VIII: Artificial
Intelligence, further down the hall. Just before she is going inside, a well
known voice can be heard behind her. It's Maia Wakabayashi, her working
partner.
"Hey Liz how
you doing?”
"Maia, good
to see you”
"I'll be
ready with the presentation of the new chip before this day is over. We will
present it to the manager on Friday".
"That's
fantastic Maia", Liza smile's.
"I’m of to
run some more tests, if this works, we will take a great step towards AI”!
"That's a
reason to celebrate! Dinner at 20.00 hrs?”
"Sure. Meet
me in the lobby; we can go to that new restaurant".
"See you
than", Liz goes inside.
The lab has
a cylinder chapped containment field in the center, with a cybernetic arm
inside, attached to a testing machine. The main control room is placed on the
upper level. Liz takes the stairs on her right next to the door she just came
through. She walks up to the control room.
Computers and
monitors have been placed all over the large room. Eight people are working on
the lower level. The room has eight large screens, a long bench with many control
buttons and sticks. Beside the screens are tempter meters. Six scientists are
inside the control room when Liza Hayz enters, four males and two females.
"How's it
going"?
"It's going
just fine, miss Hayz", one of the scientists answers.
"Here are
the final instructions; hopefully it'll work this time".
The scientist
takes the disk from Hayz and puts it into a drive. He enters a few command
codes on the keyboard next to him.
"Begin the
starting sequence, on my mark".
"Standing
by", the scientist replies and presses the activation button on the
control board.
"Mark".
The machine
receives the order and starts to make the arm and hand move. The hand closes
and opens its’ fingers as the wrist moves around. Liz has a happy smile on her
face.
Meanwhile has C-A
and Kieko found their way to the Yodashi building. They head towards the
entrance and walks inside. The lobby is small, with a half-circular reception
straight ahead, an elevator on the right side and a group of sofas on the left.
A man in his early fifties walks up to them.
"Who are you
and what are you doing here"?
"Both women
show their badges to the receptionist who glances at them. He is about to
search Carrie-Ann, when she grabs his right arm.
"We are
looking for a Liza Hayz; do you know where we can find her"?
"I'm not
speaking to any FBI", the receptionist spit's.
"Correction,
its CIA”.
Kieko has to calm
her partner down, before they can continue.
"Listen, we
need to talk to Liza Hayz, it's important", says Kieko with a demanding
tone of voice.
The receptionist
calls for Hayz. When she gets there, isn't to happy seeing them.
"You wanted
to talk to me, make it quick, I've got a lot of work to do".
Carry-Ann is
checking the young blond woman in jeans, T-shirt and a white doctor jacket out.
"My name is
Carry-Ann Worthington, CIA".
"Okay, what
does that have to do with me, if you work for the CIA or not"?
"We did a
computer check, and we where looking for possible white males/females that has
been working for, or has had anything to do with the
"I guess
you've got me. Shall we go to the station, so you can interrogate me
yourself?"
“It’s fine by
me”, C-A grins. “Or we can sit down in the sofas over there".
They walk over to
the sofas and sits down. C-A shows the picture of Biggs.
"This is
Charles Biggs; he was reported dead a few days ago".
“I haven't seen
him."
"Are you
sure"? C-A pauses, "Try again; Charles Biggs was a CIA operative,
working undercover, delivering or shipping supplies to the crime organizations.
You must've seen him".
"I don’t
know, maybe...
“What do you know
about Akira Hama”?
“Miss
Worthington, Mr. Hama is an honorable man. This science facility, has he
financed himself”
“What are you
doing here exactly”?
“Classified
information” Miss Worthington.
“Can you call me
if you find out anything?” Kieko asks, as she hands over her card to Liz.
“Sure, Bye now”,
Hayz stands up and starts to walk towards the elevator.
Carrie-Ann stands
up and shouts Lisa’s name. Liza Hayz stops and turns around, while C-A starts
to walk towards her.
"I would
like to have a look around the complex, a tour if you will..."
"No can do
Missy, good day now". Hayz gets into the elevator.
"Damn"!
Kieko walks up to
C-A.
"Now
what"?
"I guess I
have to find another way”.
That night,
dressed in black, Carrie-Ann breaks into the Yoashi building, through a
basement window. She heads through the corridor and the stairs until she gets
to the lobby. When she stands in front of the elevator door, she takes notice
of the code box next to the door. She sighs, than she hurries to the stairs.
She starts to search for a place she can hide, when she hears voices she
manages to pick a lock to one of the doors close to her, and she hurries
inside. C-A feels her heart pounding in her chest. What should she do if
someone sees her? What will she say, and whey should she say if she ran into
that blond woman? What will she find if she keeps digging? Questions like these
spins around in her head. She finds a light switch and she turns it clockwise.
The room illuminates revealing some chairs, a bookcase and a door on the other
side of the room.
Carrie-Ann walk
through the room opens the door and fined herself in another corridor, witch
leads three ways. She starts going down the corridor, reading the signs on the
doors... She stops in front a door with the sign: L. Hayz. She opens the door
with a lock picker. The door opens and she gets inside. She lets the light from
the flashlight swoop over the room. There is a desk with drawers, an old fashion
office lamp at the desk, and four shelves with folders above the desk.
Carrie-Ann starts going through the folders on the shelves.
"File
932.1. By: Liza Hayz”...
“Aha! Now we are getting somewhere!”
"The
experiment has taken a new turn. Thanks to "CB", I wonder who that is... “Has the project
taken a huge step forward. Thanks to the new chip we will take a large step to
give machines a mind of their own”.
She continues to
read.
A truck parks on
the backside of the Yoashi building, followed by a limousine. Out from the
limousine steps Akira Hama, followed by two armed men and two scientists. He
leads the way into the building through the back door.
In Hayz office,
As she makes her
way down the stairs, she tells herself that this will not go well. Rushing down
the corridor, she prays that no one will find her. Suddenly she can hear
voices, coming from the elevator. With haste, she rushes towards the nearest
door, she grabs the handle, and the door is locked. Carrie-Ann starts to feel
panic, when she sees the door to the levels’ cleaning closet, she rushes tow
wards it. She just manages to hide inside the closet before the elevator door
opens. From inside C-A can hear voices pasting her coming from the elevator.
"It's going
to be interesting to see your project, Rain".
"I hope you
will be pleased, Mr. Hama. Hayz has been a great help".
"I bet she
has".
When the voices
have past, Carrie-Ann sneaks out from the closet, and walks right into the
cleaning lady. The little mid-aged woman looks sour at her as she excuses
herself.
“Oh, hi. Did you
see a short guy about three apples high?”
“Humph”.
Carrie-Ann tries
to tell the Japanese woman by explaining with different gestures, that she is
looking for a certain man, but she gives it up quickly.
“Why ask you, you
don’t know what I’m saying anyway…”, when she realize that it’s no use, she excuses
herself.
“I better am
going… You’re doing a fantastic job, bye”.
The cleaner looks
after Carrie-Ann as she rushes of.
“Rich people and
their wild parties”, the cleaner mutters in Japanese.
The elevator goes
down. When the doors open, Carrie-Ann stands face to face with Liza Hayz.
"Hi",
says C-A.
A couple of hours
later, Hayz and
"So let’s
see if I get this straight! You're Carrie-Ann Worthington, a CIA operative from
New York, who is here to try to solve a murder of a Charles Biggs, a former
colleague, that was an infiltrator, and now you want me to help you “catch The
rat", as you so mildly puts it".
"Something
like that".
Hayz continues
babbling for a while.
"... and
that's when I met you in the elevator. That's some story you've got
there"!
"I know.
Will you help me find the missing pieces"?
"It's gonna
be tricky".
"Yes".
Outside the serving
café passes a Trans Am. After it, are two other cars following. From one of the
cars is a man leaning out the window, firing an automatic weapon at the fleeing
car. Some of the bullets are hitting the environment. People are panicking in
the café as the windows are chattering.
"Get down
and stay down"! C-A orders the frightened people, as she rushes outside.
She can see the Trans Am smashed into a tree and the other two cars has sledded
up next to it. Six people are beating up the Trans Am’s driver and his friend.
Carrie-Ann draws her gun and aims it at the people by the cars, as she walks
quickly towards them.
"DROP YOUR
WEAPONS!
The scum by the
cars turns around, stares at her with an evil look, and one of them, the young
man with the automatic gun aims it at her. The young Japanese male squeezes the
trigger.
C-A through
herself down and rolls as fast as she can to the side, taking cover behind a
mailbox. The bullets from the automatic gun penetrate a cab further down the
street. C-A fires her gun towards the young gangsters and hits two of them who
falls to the ground. Liza Hayz rushes inside to call the police.
"Why are you
standing there"? She turns to the confectioner, who sits in a corner in
the café. "Call the cops"!
"I...can't",
she cries.
"Oargh, must
I do everything myself"? She walks behind the counter and pushes the code
to the police on the screen phone. Kieko answers.
"My name is
Liza Hayz; I wanna rapport a gunfight outside the café two blocks from the
Yoashi building, a group of armed men are shooting at that CIA woman"!
"CIA
woman"? She sights.
"Her name wouldn't be Carrie-Ann Worthington would it"?
"You know of
her"?
"Unfortunately,
yes. I'll send two units. Take it easy until we get there".
The last bullet
from C-A's gun leaves the pipe, heading towards the young man with the
automatic riffle, and misses. The moment later the young man's riffle jams and
he starts to swear. Carrie-Ann rushes as fast as she can back to the café. A
few seconds later, the bullets are flying through the air again.
Two people hurry
out from the café to drag Carrie-Ann inside and they can hear the young man
laugh. Outside, three police cars are coming fast towards the street from
different streets. The young man with the machine gun runs of, trying to
escape. The police officers gets out of the cars, while the four apprehends the
gangsters, one goes to the café and the other pulls a dart pistol, takes aim at
the fleeing man and fires. The dart, witch has a tranquilizing container inside
flies through the air. The dart hits the fleeing rascal in the leg, making him
fall asleep within minutes. The officer walks up to the sleeping rascal, lifts
him up over his shoulder and walks back to his vehicle. He puts the sleeping
youngster in the backseat and drives of.
Meanwhile the
second officer has finished interrogating Hayz and the others in the café. An
ambulance stops outside the entrance of the café and two medical personal
enters and helps C-A on a stretcher. They carry her out to the ambulance, and
Liz follows them on their way to the hospital.
“Typical, I was
going to make an appointment with Cheng Yeoh”, she mutters.
Six of
In a recovery
room at
"Hey... how
are you"?
"My head
feels like a spinning joyride, besides that... It's good to see all six of
you".
"Likewise".
A few minutes
later enters Kieko Negushi, Kiro Kabayashi, Tetsuro Izayoi and their chief;
Yoshiaki Kurada, who is not to happy seeing Carrie-Ann.
“I thought I told
you to have a low profile, and not interfere in anything but your case”.
“I was, but
something changed all that”.
“It sure did. I
talked to William Travis, does that name ring a bell”?
“Yeah, he’s my
cap”.
“Good. He is not
too happy with this situation”.
“Than we are
two”.
“Make that tree”.
The nurse enters
the room and asks them to leave. Kurada tells the nurse that he wants her to
call him before Miss Worthington leaves the hospital. Liz asks politely
permission to stay, and after convincing the nurse that she will be quite, she
sits down on a chair next to the bed. Gently she takes Carrie-Ann’s hand.
About half an
hour later, allot of noise can be heard from outside the room. Carrie-Ann tries
to get up, but she quickly lies down again.
"Could
you...."
"Way ahead
of you", Liz smiles as her room as
"This is so
fun"!
Liza looks around
in the corridor, she starts walking down the corridor towards the lunchroom.
When she pastes the reception, a big Japanese nurse of mid age stops her.
"And where
are you going"? She asks grumpy.
"I wanted
to, actually Carrie-Ann Worthington in room 511” She points at the room,
“wanted to know”.
"I know
about Miss Worthington" the nurse spits. "But why do YOU want to know
what's going on over there"?
"Well..."
It beeps from
room 511 and the nurse walks to the room, she enters and sits down next to
Carrie-Ann. Liza stands by the door.
"How's the
head"? The nurse asks.
"It's been
better” Carrie smiles at the doctor. "You only jump up and down now, last
time you where everywhere"!
"How's the
leg"?
"It
pulses...” she pauses, "Tell me nurse, when can I get out of here"?
"The doctor
must take a look at you; but a couple of days".
"Great,
where is the doc now"?
"He is with
Mr. Cheng Yeoh".
"CHENG
YEOH" Shouts Carrie-Ann and Liza at the same time.
The tall woman
sits up in her bed; the nurse tries to stop her from getting out of bed.
"You are not
well enough to walk"!
"Than get me
a damn wheel chair I'm going to talk to Yeoh", she turns to Hayz.
"Hey Liz, you wanna give me a hand or are all of you just going to stand
there looking pretty"?
"Hu"?
She looks confused.
They help her out
of the bed, and walking very slowly over to a wheel chair standing outside the
room. When Carrie-Ann sits down in the wheel chair, they are going down the
corridor to Yeoh's room. When they reach their destination, Yeoh’s guards stop
them.
"No
enter", one of them grunts.
"Hey
look", Carrie-Ann catches her breath, at the same time as her head is
spinning like a carrousel. "I am a CIA agent who has to talk to Cheng
Yeoh. Are you going to let me in, or must I kick your but first"?
"Who is
it"? A voice asks in Chinese from within the room. .
"A sick
woman, who wants to talk with you", another guard replies.
"A sick
woman you say… Well, I don't think she’ll be a problem".
Yeoh gets help
sitting up as he holds his right hand on his left rib side as the.
"What can I
do for you, sick woman"?
"I… I am
Carrie-Ann Worthington, a CIA investigator from
"… About a
week ago, an undercover CIA agent; Charles Biggs was killed here in
"I am sorry,
but what has that got to do with me"?
"He was
killed at one of your warehouses"!
This makes Cheng
and his men pay their attention to her.
“You know of this
incident”?
“I do. Miss
Worthington is it”?
“Uhu”, she
replies.
“How was your man
this Biggs, involved”?
“According to my
info, he was a spy, sending Intel about the crime orgs of
After a short
pause, C-A comes to think about what
“Is it true that
you’ve killed Akira Ham’s family”?
“Let me tell you
something MISS WORTHINGTON, in war innocence always gets stuck in the middle.
That what happened when his family was at the wrong place at the wrong time”!
“Hey I’m only
asking”, C-A defends herself, “Haven’t you ever tried to settle your
differences”?
“I have no use”.
“…Sorry, my
head’s spinning a little. Oh yeah, in the rapport it said something about
“Shadows”, do you know who has them”?
A truck with the
sign: Whong's Medical Supplies, parks outside the bay at the hospital's freight
entrance. Two people get out from the truck, a controller who checks the order
confirmation meets them.
"This isn't right...
We got a shipment last week".
"Well, they
missed some", says the big truck driver.
"I have to
check this, if you wait here for a moment".
"By all
means"!
The controller
walks towards the doors to the hospital, and does not take notice of the two men
behind him, aiming their guns at him. The triggers squeeze and the second
later, the controller lies dead on the ground. One of them opens the truck's
trailer and six more people jumps out, carrying machine guns and swords.
"Remember,
we do this for
The group rushes
inside.
Yeoh
answers the questions he gets from the CIA agent.
"The
Shadows” are not mine, they must be
"
"Yes, his
family is the only one stupid enough to still use them".
"Who or what
are the “Shadows"? Hayz wants to know.
"Ninja",
Cheng answers.
"Ninja”?
Liza looks confused at C-A.
"Yeah, you
know the people dresses in black, where's a sock over their heads and rattles
sword, Ninja"!
"This is to
wearied", says Liza.
"Yep, just
like the old Jackie Chan movies. You like Jackie Chan movies"?
Liza sights.
"Than its
Jet Lee for you, hye"!
"Carrie-Ann"!
Liza gives her a serious look.
Suddenly they can
hear gunfire from the level below.
Yeoh's men pulls
there guns. Liza and C-A wonder what's going on. One of the Chinese answers
them.
"It's
"
"We must get
you out of here, Mr. Yeoh".
"You two
better come with me, it's too dangerous here", Yeoh orders the women.
Two of Yeoh’s men
help him out of bed, another one; Tiger helps C-A, by picking her up and
carries her over his shoulder, and he does not care if she complains. Everybody
leaves the room, headed down the corridor to the dinning room. When they get
there, they hurries through a door witch leads to another corridor.
The next second
the
The Triad group
is waiting for the elevator. Tiger, aims his gun at the direction they came.
"Some
investigation"! Carrie-Ann complains.
Tiger are
shooting down the
At Hama
Corp. Building, Akira is angrier than ever. His people have failed in their
attempt in getting Cheng Yeoh.
"You are
fools"! He walks around. "I give you just this simple task, and you
can't even do that"! He points at them. "I am surrounded by
incompetent idiots"!
Akira sits down
at his desk, puts his feet on it.
"Is there
anything else"?
"Carrie-Ann
Worthington was with them", says the member closest to the door.
"What"?
Akira stands up.
"She was
carried out", the same member continues. "Maybe she was
kidnapped".
"Maybe... I
want my special “Shadow" here within 20 minutes"!
20 minutes
later enters a Japanese woman, dressed in black the office.
"Ah my
favorites shadow"
"What can I
do for you"? She asks.
"I want you
to get that CIA woman and her friend here as soon as possible".
"I will
Hama-San", the woman replies and walks towards the door. When she is about
to walk out of the room,
"And Kieko,
I want them unharmed", Akira points out.
In a
beautiful room, made by wood and thin paper windows are Liza and C-A resting.
They are dressed in beautiful Chinese gowns; blue and red.
"What's
going on"? She turns to Carrie-Ann. "Why has we been taken
here"?
"I don't
know. Come here and relax for a moment".
"I don't
want to relax, I want to go home"!
"I'm not
having this argument, now come over here"!
Liza sits down
next to Carry-Ann, who starts to massage Lisa’s shoulders.
Half an hour
later, the door slides open and a Chinese girl enters, she holds a tray with
some bowls and plates with food on it. She puts it down on the little table in
the center of the room, she serves them tea and food than she leaves.
Carrie-Ann grabs
her crutch, hurries up to the food, and starts to eat.
"How can you
think of food, in a time like this"?
"I'm
hungry"! She eats some of the food. "Mmmmmm, the best I've had in a
long time! You should try these crispy things, they're delicious"!
"I think I
pass"…
"Why, you
don't like Chinese food"? She continues, "Than you must like
Japanese, the raw stuff"!
"C’mon
Annie"!
The door opens
again and Cheng Yeoh enters. He walks up to the tall eating woman and sits down
next to her.
"I can tell
you like the food".
"Oh yes, this
stuff here, what ever it is, tastes great"!
"I'm glad
you like it... But there’s something more important, than food".
"What can be
more important than food"?
"How about
your investigation... and the fact that anytime soon the war will get even
worst. I suggest that you get out of here before you can".
Tiger enters the
room, he walk up to Yeoh. They speak in Chinese.
“I have a message
from
“Tell him I’ll be
there”, he turns to the investigator and the scientist.
“Something came
up, I’ve got to go. Find what you are looking quickly Miss Worthington, ´cause
next time I won’t be this friendly”.
Inside Whu Tsu
Khay restaurant are Cheng and Akira sitting. Only a servant is aloud to be in
the dinning section, to serve them.
“I am glad that
we could agree on a meeting Cheng”.
“Lets’ not waist
any time, get to it”?
“We both know
that we want the same territory. We both are powerful enough to run it. The
problem is that there’s no way in hell that I’m going to give it up to you”.
“Akira, you’re
getting old, the organizations needs a strong chairman. Many of the other
Oyabuns agrees. Why can’t you accept this and step aside”?
“You killed my
family”!
“I’ve explained
that a hundred times already”!
“Explain it to me
again”!
“Listen
Carrie-Ann and
Liza are gathering their stuff, getting ready to leave; when someone throws
Tiger through the thin paper walls into the room Carrie-Ann and Liza are
eating. Chocked they are looking at the dead body in front of them, than at the
dark dressed female figure, with a hood covering the head and face, coming
towards them through the broken paper window. The “Shadow” pulls a razor sharp
alloy bladed sword, and starts to walk towards them.
“You don’t want
to do this”! Liza cries.
With great
smoothness and speed the “Shadow” runs towards them, making many fast
aggressive attacks towards C-A, who just barely manage to avoid being sliced.
Liz attacks by throws everything she can at the dark dressed attacker, who has
to block everything thrown at her, giving enough room for Carrie-Ann to kick
the attacker to the ground, making her drop the sword.
Quickly the
“Shadow” gets up, makes a spinning jumps kick at C-A who falls to the ground,
giving the attacker enough time to leave in a screen of smoke.
Angry, the brown
haired beauty takes her stuff and walk out of the building with her friend the
scientist right behind her.
Silver colored
Volvo S60 parks in front of a little house and Liza gets out of the car and
walks towards the house. At the door, she stops and turns around.
“You sure you
don’t want to come inside”?
“I would
love to, but I have more to take care of before I get back to HQ”.
“Oh”, says Liza
disappointed.
“But how about a
rain check”?
“I like that” she
smiles.
“See ya”,
Carrie-Ann winks her eye before she drives of.
When she gets
back to the HQ its’ late, so she writes her rapport, than she goes home to
sleep.
The following day, running through the crowd
in a huge mall, Carrie-Ann chases a drug dealer, which she by accident happened
to catch selling, drugs to two couple of very young teenagers on the malls’
parking lot. She shouts to the costumers to get out of her way, as she pushes
people left and right, trying to catch the fleeing scum. Kieko runs out from
another entrance to cut the dealer’s escape rout short. The drug dealer rushes
straight trough a group of people entering the mall. He rushes down the street
and takes a left down an alley. He runs towards the other side of the alley,
tumbles over garbage cans and other junk wish is spread all over the alley, to
suddenly stop when he sees Kieko standing in front of him. He turns around to
see Carrie-Ann.
“Thanks for the exercise, let’s talk”.
The door opens to the interrogation room at
the police station, and the drug dealer pushed inside. The room is small with a
window you cannot see through from within the room, a table, two chairs, a
digital video camera standing on a stand pointing at an empty chair. On the
other side of the window is Yoshiaki, Teturu and Kiro, they want to observe
what is going to happen during the interrogation of the prisoner. A few minutes
later are Carrie-Ann and Kieko enters the room. The drug dealer sits on the
chair on the opposite side of the door.
“Hi”, says C-A as she enters the room, with
Kieko close behind her, carrying an extra chair.
They sit down by the table, C-A pulls a
notebook from her chest pocket on her blouse, she presses the record button on
the recorder, than she turns her attention towards the drug dealer.
“Let’s see what we’ve got… Your name is Mark
N´Guyen, age 24, mother’s dead, father’s in prison and a sister on rehab and
you’re dealing drugs. If you have something to ad, please don’t be afraid to
speak up”.
“Go to hell you fucking cohesion bitch”! Mark
spits in Japanese.
C-A is facing Kieko.
“What did you say”?
“He said something about your mother”, Kieko
smirks.
“Oh”?
“Listen you punk,” C-A starts, “Where did you
get the drugs? What do you know about a cohesion male around the age of 35, who
died about a week ago in a warehouse”!?
She almost choking Mark and Kieko tries to
break them apart.
“Calm down C-A”!
Yoshiaki seem amused as he watches the
interrogation.
After calming herself down,
“He got it from a sumo wrestler, who’s
working for a great Yakuza leader”, Kieko explains.
“How interesting”.
Kieko waves her and to a police officer
waiting outside the interrogation room. He enters and Kieko tells him to book
Mark for selling drugs and running from the law.
Later that morning, Kieko Negushi sits at her
desk, writing down some notes, when a messenger comes up to her.
“Kieko Negushi”?
“Yes”, she looks at the girl in front of her,
dressed in an overall and a hat, holding a small package and a paper for
signing.
“A package for you, sign on the line”.
She signs the paper, than she gets the
package and the messenger leaves. She opens the package and takes out some
photos and a small tape recorder. The photos show Biggs dealing with the Triad,
photos of the “Shadows” and herself slaying the American agent. Negushi presses
the recorders play button and they hear a male Japanese voice.
“Pretty impressive photos, don’t you think? I
was there when you and your group of “Shadows”, slaughtered those men in th
warehouse, and I know about the shipping of the stuff in the crates… I want you
to go the address written on the backside of one of the photos, be there in
tree hours, or I will send copies of these photos to the cops. Oh, and bring
the AI computer chip from the
Yodashy building. I know you can get it, because I know what you are”.
Carrie-Ann comes out from the bathroom. She
can see that Kieko is sitting at her desk, so she walks up to her.
“What’s going on”?
“Uhum…I’m sorry, can’t talk, see ya”.
Negushi grabs the photos, the tape recorder
and rushes away.
“You could at least show the pictures”!
A couple of miles outside
“You’ve got the ship”? the man asks.
“It’s in my car”, Kieko replies.
“Than get it”! the man orders.
“Who are you”?
“I’m someone who you don’t wanna mess with,
now get the chip”!
Kieko walks over to her car and gets a small
box from the glove compartment. She is holding the box in her hand as she walks
a few meters towards the man by the next car.
“Can you tell me what this is about”?
“I work for the Yodoshi company, I was one of
the scientists who helped develop the AI chip. I also was a friend of Biggs,
who you slaughterd in the warehouse”!
“He was in my way, I had to. Besides dirty
cops have no honor, they deserve to die”!
“What the hell are you talking about”?
“Biggs was working for the CIA, sending
information back and forth between the families and to his beloved CIA”.
“That can’t be…” He hesitates, than he pulls
a gun and points it at Kieko, who reaches for her jacket pocket.
“Give me the chip or I’ll send the photos to
the cops”!!
“Off course”, she replies as she trough the
box towards the man at the same time as she pulls four Shuriken stars, witch
she had in her pocket, and trough them as well towards him. The stars hit the
man in his chest and left leg as he tries to catch the box.
Negushi picks up the gun and aims it at the
wounded man, trying to get up.
“Please”!
“You thought that you could fool me”?, she
screams in anger. “You wanted to black mark me, by exposing me with your
pictures, trying to get rich, hu”!
“Please don’t kill me…”
“Or did you want the chip for yourself”? She
continues, “Screwing Hama is not wise, nor me”!
“Please”… he cries. “That technology should
be for the needing”.
“It will be”, she pulls the trigger, and
keeps firing until the clip clicks. Negushi walks back to her car and goes back
to HQ, leaving the dead man where he lies.
When Kieko comes back to HQ, she can’t find
anyone. She looks around, wondering where everybody is. When she pastes the
conference room, she can here voice from within. She opens the door and enters.
Inside has most of the officers gathered, she can see her chief Yoshiaki
Kurada, Tetsuru Isayoi, Kiro Kabayashi and others, at the white board she can
see C-A writing.
“This is what we know. Charles Biggs where
killed at this warehouse down by the docks. He where killed by “Shadows” -
Ninjas. The only ninjas I know are the once in the movies, but what you have
been telling me, ninjas are also used as assassins in underground
organizations, right? But no one has ever seen one up close for many years, so
it might as well be fiction for all we know”.
The others agree.
“Now, my theory is partly based on the
evidence what we found in the warehouse…” she shows a photo of the hand they
found,
“…that Biggs was killed during a deal at this
place with people from the Yeoh family. These “Shadows” sneaks in and kills
everybody inside. The big question is WHY”, she writes the word why
on the board and draws a circle around it.
“The following questions would be; who has
the “Shadows”, and why is he/she or they using them”?
“Maybe to hide his or her identity”, answers
Yoshiaki.
“Point for you”, C-A points at him.
Tetsuru Isayoi clears his through before
speaking.
“I have an idea…”
“Mr. Isayoi, don’t keep us from waiting”.
“I’ve been trying to find a connection
between the ninjas that attacked in the warehouse and the crime orgs in
Kieko looks at Tetsuru with hate in here
eyes. When the meeting is over, Kieko is the last leaving the conference room.
Tetsuru and Kiro exit the HQ building; they
are walking down the stairs towards the parking lot. Inside the building stands
Negushi, she is dialing a number on her cell phone.
“This is Negushi; we have two problems and
they have to betaken care of immediately, and they are going to their car now”.
“We have a car near by; they will take care
of the problem”.
Kiro and Tetsuru get in the car and drives
of. When they are pasting the Tjukiji Central Fish Market down by
Carrie-Ann is going trough the notes on the
white board when Kieko enters, she looks worried.
“Carrie-Ann, have you heard”?
“Have I heard what”?
“Kiro and Tetsuru have been killed”!
“What? When? By who”?
“I just heard over the radio. They where
attacked near Tjukiji Central Fish Market”.
“Let’s get over there; I’m just going to get
my jacket”.
When they arrive, they see many cars wish has
been totally smashed, many wounded, dead or chocked people. They see several
ambulances taking care of the wounded, when Carrie-Ann and Kieko arrive.
“What a mess”!
“Let’s do this”, says Kieko as she starts
walking towards the ambulance personal.
C-A starts asking people what happened, they
explain that the car that has crashed into the house wall behind them where
attacked and that they heard weapons fire followed by the crash.
They tell her the seriousness of this tragedy
and about how the situation was when they came. Kieko thanks for the
information, than she calls for Carrie-Ann. Together, they are walking over to
the crashed car. The car is a wrack with many bullet holes all over it.
“Check this out. A small knife in shape of a
dragon”
“May I have a look”? The Japanese
investigator walks around to the other side to look at the item.
“What do you make of this, Kie”?
“This is not good,” She says after looking at
the item, “This dragon is the symbol of the largest Yakuza family in
“Akira Hama”.
“Yes Carrie, Akira Hama”.
Carrie-Ann takes a pocket size camera from
her inner pocket, and starts taking pictures of the car, the dead officers and
the surroundings.
“I’m done. Let’s go and see
Neugushi looks at her colleague with evil
eyes. They are walking back to the car, while Carrie-Ann goes through her
notes.
“I don’t get it”.
“What”?
“Kiro and Tetsuru looked like leftovers from
Friday the 13th, and someone knew that they where heading this way
and followed…”
“I guess”.
“What I want to know is; how did the
assassins know that Tetsuru and Kiro where going that way”?
“I don’t know”.
They get into their car and leave the Fish
market, on their way to the Hama Corps.
Akira Hama stands by a window in his office,
looking over
“It seems that we are going to have guests”.
“Who”?
“That CIA woman, and her pet”.
The two women enter the Hama corp.
building, going towards the elevator.
“I’m sure we will rap the case today”.
“Perhaps”.
“You sound doubtful, that’s not like you”.
“What are you going to ask him”?
“About the dart we found and about the dead agents,
yours, mine and who the sumo wrestler is that the kid mentioned”.
“Just go easy”.
They enter the elevator, to a couple of
minute’s later exit, to find themselves on
“Don’t even think about it! We are here to
see your boss, where is he”?
“Top level”, the mid aged Japanese operates
answers in pain.
The two investigators marches back to the
elevator, going up to the top level.
When they step out of the elevator,
they stare amazed at the surroundings. The entire top level goes in different
blue tones, with Japanese mythology paintings covering the walls, and the
pillars, large windows on the right side following the entire corridor down to
the door, leading to the bathhouse. Through the windows they can see into the
bathhouse, with its’ many bathing sections. Allot of people of both sexes are
bathing, standing around talking and enjoying themselves.
The Japanese turns their attention to the two
women marching through the door and up to them. A young man with long hair and
a little scar on his face walks up to them. He is pointing at Carrie-Ann.
“You can’t be here”!
The investigator from
“Don’t waist my time”! She starts walking
around at the same time she is showing the little dart she found, “I’m looking
for the owner of this dart. It was found in the neck of one of the investigators’
neck”
The Yakuza members slowly spread out, as they
keep listening to the Investigator.
“Since you all look alike why doesn’t the
owner of the dart come forward, making this easy for me”?
Akira Hama gets up from the wooden basin and
walks up to her along with the sumo wrestler.
“You got some nerves coming here with an
attitude like that”
“Let’s cut the crap shall we”?
“By all means”.
“Are you responsible for the dead officers”?
“Indirect? Yes”.
Carrie-Ann’s eyes darken.
“Why did you have them killed”?
“It wasn’t my idea”.
“Than who’s was it”?
“Someone we know” Akira glances at Kieko who
looks sour, than he smiles at the sum wrestler.
“Do you know what this is”? C-A shows him the
dart she found.
“A throwing knife”?
“With a dragon on it”, She spits. “Do your
knives look like this”? She throws the dart in front of Hamas’ feet.
“It is my sigil, yes. But anyone could’ve
taken it”.
Like one of your “Shadows”? She continues,
“If so where can I find the one that killed Charles Biggs”?
“Closer than you think”.
“Is it him”? She points at the sumowrestler,
“I’ve been looking for a sumowrestler selling drugs to teenagers”.
“Than he’s your man”.
One of the members gives a Wakisashi sword to
Kieko behind
“Kieko, arrest him”, C-A orders.
“You are very cooperative Mr. Hama, now who
killed my agent”?
“I did”, Kieko says as she puts the sharp
blade at Carrie-Ann’s trough.
“Kieko no”.
“I’m sorry Carrie-Ann, but I can’t let you
arrest him”.
Kieko waves at a sub-unit who rushes of, to a
few minutes later return with Liza Hayz who has her hands tied behind her back.
“I figured that you want to be together with
your girlfriend one last time”.
“Let her go you sushi-eating bitch”!
“I made sure that we would have all the
triumph cards on our hands”.
Kieko knocks
C-A wakes up and find her tied on a chair in
a small room with Hayz.
“What a mess we have got ourselves into now,
hye”.
“Do you know what this is about”?
“It is obvious. Kieko is a traitor”.
“A traitor”?
“Yep, she’s been in it all along. I figure
she is responsible for the dead officers and it wouldn’t…”
The door opens and Kieko enters interrupting
them.
“Akira wants to talk to you” Kieko Negushi
grins.
Two Yakuza members are tying up the ropes
around
During the elevator ride, C-A pushes
some buttons on her watch, sending a beeping message to the
“Why did you do it”?
“What”?
“Why did you order the death of your
colleagues”?
“They came to close”.
The elevator door opens, and they are
stepping out, going down the corridor to the office and enters.
Akira sits in the sofa, waiting for
them. Next to him sits the sumowrestler.
“Welcome”.
In the police HQ is a young communication
officer receiving the beeping message that Carrie-Ann sent. He rushes into
Yoshiaki Kurada’s office and tells him to come and listen to the message.
Yoshiaki follows him to his station.
“This is the strange beeping, sir”.
“Have you tried to crack it”?
”Yes sir and it comes from Hama Corporation
building”.
“The
Another message is coming in.
“Sir, it’s from the same place. It says,
Come…to
“Who’s it from”?
“Carrie-Ann Worthington, sir”.
Akira takes a chair and sits down next to
Carrie-Ann, while Kieko talks to the sumowrestler by the window.
“So miss Worthington, do you want to know why
your partner is dead and who did it”?
“That’s why I’m here”! She spits.
“Can you please tell me what’s going on”?
Hayz asks.
“You know Miss Hayz, it’s kind of
embarrassing, working with the person that killed your colleague”.
Kieko walks up to them and gives Carrie-Ann a
forcing kiss while she keeps her eyes on Liza.
“And believe me, I enjoyed evey second of it,
slaying your partner that is”.
“How could you do this”?
“Kieko is my number one “Shadow”, Akira
smiles proudly. “When something goes wrong, I’m sending her in to fix it”.
“What about Charles Biggs”?
“Biggs was a great spy, I have to admit that.
Even I was to believe his story, but he made a mistake, otherwise you would
never be here”.
“The smashed crates in the warehouse”?
“The artificial body parts from the science
lab, ready to be shipped”.
Hayz looks chocked.
“That’s not my problem, I want her”! C-A
points at Kieko.
“She’s all yours, if you can take care of a
full trained Ninja, that is. Can you”?
“Watch me”!
Six police cars are speeding away from the HQ
towards the Hama Corp. Building. When they arrive the officers rushes out from
their vehicles in body armors carrying automatic riffles. Inside the building,
a young member sees the cops rushing out their cars, he runs towards the
elevators, gets in and goes up to the office level. He rushes into the office
screaming in Japanese.
“Cops, cops outside”!
“What”?,
Carrie-Ann sees this as an opportunity and
rushes up, grabs the young Japanese puts him in front of her as a human shield
and takes his gun pointing it at
“I’m getting out of here, and I’m
taking her with me”, she points at Kieko.
“I don’t think so” Kieko snarls.
“I beg the differ, now get”!
The police enter the building, like a swarm
they are spreading out searching the levels, taking many of the Yakuza members
out or arresting them.
The member C-A uses as a shield falls dead to
the floor the second after a gun goes of, leaving Carrie whide open. Still
aiming her gun at the Japanese gangsters she walks slowly backwards until she
can reach her hand to Liza Hayz, who grabs it.
“We’re getting out of here”.
The minute later the police rushes into the
office aiming their guns at everybody in the there. In enters Yoshiaki who
looks sour at Kieko, who smirks at him. The police arrests the Yakuza family
and escorts them out. Yoshiaki walks up to C-A and Liza.
“You can put the gun down”.
“Great. What happens now”?
“We are going to interrogate everyone, and I
want you to write your report a.s.a.p, understood”?
“Yes sir”.
“Good, so you found the killer”?
“Yap, sadly that she is a cop”.
“Was a cop”, Liza cuts in.
“Let’s get out of here”.
They are leaving.
Liza at the airport kisses a couple of days
later, after a well-deserved vecation, Carrie-Ann goodbye.
It is early morning when Carrie-Ann enters her
apartment and it looks like it did when she left. She drops her clothes and
gets to bed. About two hours later the screen phone starts to beep. Carrie-Ann
grunts as she mutters.
“Here we go again”.
The End
CAST
Lucy Lawless CIA agent Carrie-Ann Worthington
Renee O'Connor Scientist Liza Hayz
Kevin Smith CIA chief William Travis
Chow Yun Fat Triad leader Cheng Yeoh