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Message no. 1
From: ANGLISS BRIAN EDWARD <angliss@****.Colorado.EDU>
Subject: Drek! Frag!
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 12:34:46 -0700 (MST)
*****PRIVATE: Commander Drake
>>>>>[Boss, we're out of the Pit. All of us. The ambush fell through.
Hard, too.]<<<<<
-- My Name Is <12:14:26/04-05-57>

*****PRIVATE: Hello, My Name Is, Inego, Montoya
>>>>>[I figured. What happened? What tipped you off?]<<<<<
-- Commander Drake, InterPol <12:15:25/04-05-57>

*****PRIVATE: Commander Drake
>>>>>[The coffee we had deliverd to us this morning. It had a note
attached: "For all those InterPol ambushers, our compliments." Needless
to say, it was a bit embarrasing. We just packed up and left, no trying
to cover our covers.]<<<<<
-- Hello <12:17:17/04-05-57>

*****PRIVATE: Hello, My Name Is, Inego, Montoya
>>>>>[Oh, that's good. If the cover was blown totally, you should still
have tried to extract yourselves more professionally. Don't to that
again!

Frag. Ok, here's your orders. Pound the streets, contacts, corps,
everything. We do this one the old fashioned way from now on. We'll get
better results, I'm sure.]<<<<<
-- Commander Drake, InterPol <12:20:27/04-05-57>

*****PRIVATE: Major Zicahrata, Aztechnology Intelligence Services
>>>>>[You listen really closely, and really good, because I'm only going
to say this once.

I lost 4 days to your wild goose chase in the Muskogie Pit. I've got a
hunch you planted the drek in hopes that Lynch would rise to the bait.
Well, he didn't, and you've wasted my time when we could have been doing
other things.

My entire Seattle group is devoted to this, so as much as it's going to
rub your ass the wrong way, you're going to do what I say. You will not
lay any more traps for Lynch and expect Special Branch to be the jaws.
You will forward us all information you receive about Lynch, unless you
really don't want him to be caught for you, and you will send it through
proper channels regardless of how important it is. And most importantly,
you will not obstruct my investigation in any way, shape, or form, and I
describe "obstruct" in extremely broad terms.

Feel free to get really fraggin pissed at my ordering you around. After
all, I'm not a megacorp rep. But if you and your superiors want me to
nail Lynch for you, you'll still do what I demand, regardless of how
pissed you are, because if you don't, then you'll never get him. You'll
keep getting in the way.

If you're not willing to absorb those terms, then contact whichever of my
bosses you own and cut me loose and let me get back to being a cop.]<<<<<
-- Commander Drake, InterPol <12:28:57/04-05-57>

*****PRIVATE: Montoya
>>>>>[Monty, take your team to the Redfeather funeral. Minimal weapons,
clear it with the Souix first so they know you're going to be in town.
Keep seperate, don't interfere, and don't try to arrest anyone for any
reason. If you spot Lynch, tag him and get an aura on him, but do not
try to arrest. I don't suspect he'll show, but I want to know who his
associates are. No hiding either. I want news to get back to Lynch that
I know some of his friends and that they're tagged. It'll isolate him
some. Send me the faces and I'll ID them if you haven't already, and
we'll get trackers going before they're even back in Seattle. You've got
3 days.]<<<<<
-- Commander Drake, InterPol <12:34:31/04-05-57>

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