Preparation


The Savoy Hotel, London





Eric Morales and his team are stood in his room at the Savoy hotel London. This is the same hotel he has stayed in on every trip he has taken to London, well every trip since he had made his fortune. It is not cheap staying in a hotel that’s previous clientele include Sir Winston Churchill, Frank Sinatra and Claude Monet among others of similar ilk and standing. Morales looks around his small band of rogue’s he had set up with precision planning and briefs them on the task in hand.


Morales: Ok people so tonight I have the big meet with our new investors. There is a lot of money riding on this one so we need to get it right. Our investors run a chain of underground night clubs here in the city, they need us to provide them with the required, let’s say goodies, to ensure their customers continue to have a good time spending all their money. The investors have offered big money for our product which is good because Dida has charged us big money for it.


Now the plan for this evening is, myself and the investors will be having a meeting in a restaurant down town we will obviously be discussing the business at hand but he has also promised to show me the more underground, fun sightseeing portions of this great city. So with that happening I don’t want to upset our possible investor, this s where you guys come in.



I have you positioned at our new clients establishments throughout the city, the locations details are will be sent to your cell now. The sound of text messages being received can be heard around the room as all the team reaches for the handset to have a look at where they are going tonight.



Now although these are underground establishments our normal procedures still apply. It is known that under-cover officers have been spotted in these premises so we must all ways be careful and pick your targets wisely. It shouldn’t be too much of a problem as our client has planned a VIP area where you will be working so he has his guy’s approving who will be allowed in to this area, he assures me they are trained to pick up on any sign’s that someone may be not who they appear to be.


Now Michael and Rico, unfortunately for you to your evenings will be spent very differently. Our client may well be promising us this big prize but I have heard stories of this guy backing out of deals or let’s say potentially being a problem. So you guys tonight will be trailing me. I have car for you down in the car park. Morales tosses a set of car keys over to the room and Rico catches them. Ok so keep your distance though I do not want our client to suspect something is wrong of that I don’t trust him.



So the information of where to pick up your gear will arrive on your cells shortly, now go get ready to collect it and please head straight out to your places of business for this evening.




The Evening




Rico Ramon and Michael Lafferty are sat in the black BMW Z series that Eric had sourced for them. The limousine carrying Eric had just pulled up outside some swanky London restaurant. Rico and Michael had pulled their car up about 200 feet behind. And now are just sat waiting for the boss and his new client. Finally the driver gets out of the limo and opens the back doors allowing Eric and his client to step out onto the street and quickly head into the restaurant.


Rico and Michael wait for a few minutes before getting out of the car and heading up the street and following their boss into the restaurant. The restaurant manager greets them at the entrance.


Restaurant Manager: May I have your name Sir.


Rico:: Ramon, Rico Ramon.


The restaurant manager finds Rico’s name on the booking and takes them to their table. As they are walking across the busy restaurant they are led by the manager right past Eric’s table, just like many times before they stuck to the plan and played by their boss’s rules. No eye contact, know acknowledgment or each other. As they past Eric’s table they could hear him telling his new customer that all is in place and business as beginning as we speak.


Once at their table Rico and Michael sit opposite each other, Michael’s back is to their bosses table so Rico can keep an eye over his shoulder to make sure everything is going as it should. A waiter approaches with the wine list and Michael orders a bottle, the most expensive bottle. Rico look at him like he was mad, Michael just shrugged as if to say, “Heck after tonight were going to have enough money to use the stuff on our cereal”.




The Beginning of The End




A few hours later Rico is still sat in the restaurant waiting for his boss o finish his meeting. All is going well so far. Michael is outside having a smoke and making a call to one of the runners who are working tonight. Michael walks back into the restaurant and Rico can see in his face something is wrong. He is white as a sheet. Michael sits at the table and begins to talk.


Michael: We have a problem, a big problem.


Rico leans in to hear what Michael has to say.


Michael: That was Stan on the phone and were fucked. Some kid bought too much of this shit off of Graham and has passed out unconscious in one of the club’s, Stan said he has pulled Graham out of there and he is back at the hotel now. We’re fucked, the client isn’t going to want people winding up dead in his club.


Rico::Ok,ok calm down man lets think this through, we need to get this cleaned up before the boss and our new client there finds out.


A mobile phone begins to ring across the restaurant, Rico and Michael freeze as the look over to the table that seats their boss and his client. The client is reaching into his pocket. “Oh shit” Rico said. Continuing to look at the client as he took the call Rico and Michael were beginning to panic. The client eventually hangs up the phone and continues talking to their boss, but he doesn’t look happy.



A few moments later The Client and Eric get to their feet and leave the restaurant. Rico and Michael quickly follow them out being careful not to be seen. Just as they get into the car Rico’s phone rings, it’s the boss. Rico looks over towards the limo which was beginning to pull away. He answers the phone but he can’t really make out the words on the other end of the line, just the odd word.


…..Cost me a lot of money…. Someone’s head must roll for this….. Unfortunately that person is….you….


It wasn’t Eric’s voice they were hearing, it was the clients, and he’s going to kill Eric Morales. Rico quickly hangs up the phone as they speed off after the limo taking the boss you his inevitable end or was it the boss’s voice.


The follow the limo all the way to the Savoy Hotel where their base had been stationed, this is odd Rico thought to himself as they pulled up in the car park between two range rovers to hide them from site. The limo doors opened again and Eric and his client walked into the hotel. Rico and Michael followed them in just in time to see them enter the elevator. The two men pushed the button and waited for the next one.


Once they reached the top floor the made there way down the corridor to the hotel room, just as they approached they heard a scream so they pulled their guns out from under their coats and burst into the room to help their boss. Rico was first in and he just stopped dead in his tracks.


Rico: What the fuck!


Michael quickly follows in just in time to see Rico fall back against the wall with a bullet in his head. Michael begins to unleash rounds all over the hotel room but gets caught with a bullet in his shoulder causing him to drop the gun and fall to the floor. Looking around he see’s Graham with blood pouring from multiple bullet holes in his body he is dead, he see’s Rico, dead. He looks around the door in expectation to see his boss dead but he didn’t.


Eric Morales walks up to Michael on the floor slowly with the silenced pistol in his hands.


Eric: I’m sorry Michael, you have all cost me too much.


Michael’s eyes close as Eric holds the pistol to his head and pulls the trigger.


Michael is dead.


Eric:: Ok Jeremy, now we get back to the lock up. It won’t be long before the others get there so we can finish the job off..


You see what Eric’s team didn’t know was that they had been put together originally yes to make Eric lots of money. But there is more to it. There was more money at stake than any had imagined. All of the money that Eric’s team had made for him was to give him the financial footing to be ready for this job with his old acquaintance Jeremy Hammond. Eric and Jeremy had been cooking up this deal for many years, preparing a team to do their dirty work. Now that they had made the money to do the big job the team is no longer needed, in fact while they are still alive working for Eric they are eating into his profit. So now they are gone.


Eric and Jeremy are stood now in this hotel room with more money than they could ever imagine, Do you remember Dida, the Dutch coffee shop owner and drug dealer from Amsterdam? Well he is dead. Jeremy sorted that out the moment Eric had stepped on the plane to head to London. You see on Dida’s permission his team had dropped of the vast majority of his drugs to a secure lock up in London ready for Eric’s job. Here is clever part Dida’s accountant goes by the name of Jeremy Hammond. So now Eric and Jeremy have one his entire stock of drug’s but also the ability to access Dida’s own small fortune.


Sometime later in their secret lock up the rest of Eric’s team begin entering the room only to be met by a stream of bullets. One after another they fall to the ground as Jeremy and Eric take all of them down. Once every last one of them is lying dead on the floor Jeremy walks over to the big shutter door and slides it open. A truck backs in with the back doors open and Eric and Jeremy begin to load up all of their new found profit.



A lot of people had to die, but it had to be done”