Joe and Katlain’s hotel room:
Katlain stretches as she gets out of bed. She felt slightly sore as she walked into the bathroom to relieve herself. As she is sitting on the toilet thinking about her husband and daughter. She wonders what action she and Joe should take next.

So far, Shawn Grubbs is being evasive, driving her crazy. Usually, she wouldn’t try to be sneaky and play by the rules in trying to find him. She would go straight to the source to get the information.

However, Judge Wolf wanted her to make sure everything she did. He wanted her on the up and up. Sure, she could go into the grey area if she needed to. However, she couldn’t go too far into the grey area.

As Katlain finishes doing her morning business and washing her hands afterward. She walks back into the common area of the hotel room and sits down at the table their laptop is sitting on. She looks at all the information she and Joe have learned so far. Everything points to the fact that Shawn was here with the brotherhood. She leans back in her seat and stares at the information.

Joe wakes up and steps into the bathroom to do his morning business as Joe finishes with his morning business. He walks into the common area and notices Katlain looking at their laptop.

“Morning.” Joe walks over to the coffee maker to brew himself a cup of coffee.

“Morning.” Katalin looks over toward Joe.

“What are you up to this early in the morning?” Joe was curious why Katlain was up early.

“My body decided that I needed to get up. Also, I miss my daughter and husband.” Katalin never thought she ever admits that.

“It must be hard for you. So, have you discovered something we might have missed?” Joe walks over and sits down next to Katlain.

“No, I still think Richie is a good lead. Since he is always at the club, I should be able to break into his house and find what we need.”

“Alright, let’s do that this evening. He should be at the bar and probably hasn’t heard about you yet.”

“But he might have heard about those men we arrested.” Katlain wonders what his connection might be to them.

“Maybe let’s grab some breakfast and get to work.” Joe takes a sip from his coffee cup.

“Yeah, you’re right.” Katlain gets up and fixes herself a cup of coffee.

Later during the day, Joe and Katlain drive by Richie’s place. They noticed that his car wasn’t there.

“I’m going to go ahead and check the place out. Keep an eye open for me.” Katalin gets out of the van and makes her way toward Richie’s place.

Joe watches as Katlain makes her way towards Richie’s place. Breaking into a place during the daytime was dangerous. A person could be spotted immediately, but with how the places were set up. They had some privacy.

Katlain is careful as she approaches Richie’s place. She noticed he had a lot of dogs and security cameras monitoring his place. Some of the cameras were concealed among the trees surrounding Richie’s place. She avoids them as she moves closer and closer. To keep the dogs from giving her away. She tosses two grenades of knockout gas at them. She waits as the dogs are affected by the gas. She’ll retrieve the grenade canisters before leaving.

Katlain makes it to the house and notices a few cameras. She temporarily disables them before entering the house. The inside was nice and well-kept. She wonders who did his house cleaning.

“You won’t believe how neat this place is, Joe.” Katlain couldn’t believe how neat it was.

“Do you think he has someone come in to clean his place?” Joe was seeing everything Katlain was seeing. She had a small body camera mounted on her body.

“He might, but I doubt it.” As Katlain continues to search the place.

After a while, she stops in the middle of the room and looks around. Something didn’t seem right to her.

“What’s wrong?” Joe had noticed Katlain stopping and looking around.

“Something seems off about this room.” Katlain walks over to one side of the room and kneels to look at the floor.

“You think he has a hidden room?” Joe had caught onto what Katlain was hinting at.

“Yeah, the dimensions are off for this room.” Katlain finds clues and finally finds the hidden door and how to open it.

The door opens, and the lights come on inside the room.

“Jack pop!” Katlain looks at all the camera feeds and the server Richie had in there. He even had a satellite hookup.

“Man, this guy is well connected.” Katalin pulled out the flash drive that had her password cracker programs.

“I can tell. So far, you’re clear. Nothing is going on out here.” Joe was watching the monitors inside of the van.

“Alright, Mr. Richie. Let’s see how connected you are.” As Katlain starts going through the files.

Katalin clicks on several folders, and after a while, she hits the jackpot. A smile appears on her face as she copies everything to a portable drive. At the same time, the computer was doing that.

She does some more searching and finds his hidden weapons room. She couldn’t believe everything inside the room. He had hi-tech-looking body armor and weapons you would expect to find at DARP research.

“Where does a backwater hick like Richie get weapons and armor of this caliber?” Katalin notices Richie had a few drones that could have missiles or grenades and drop them.

He even had a few that DARP had been working on that you could send and kill your opponents. They had a small explosive charge built into them. They were called suicide drones.

“Are you seeing this?” Katlain picks one up to look at it.

“Yeah, I thought the Geneva Conventions outlawed those?” Joe knew a little about it.

“Beats me. I think it's cheating when you send mindless robots to do your killing.” Katlain takes pictures of them and all the items needed to build them.

Katalin returned everything to how it was before returning to the computer room. She noticed it still had 15% to copy. She looks around some more and finds a hidden safe.

“Let’s see if I can crack this thing.” Katalin noticed it had a fingerprint scanner.

She heads towards the kitchen, finds a dirty glass, and copies the fingerprints. She uses the copy to open the safe and finds a bunch of bundled-up bills.

“Oh, this is so tempting.” Katlain grabs a bundle and fingers the bills.

“Don’t do it, Katlain. Remember why we are here.” Joe knew Katlain was tempted.

“I won’t.” As she slips a few bills out of the stack and pocket them.

She closed the safe and checked the progress. She watches as the last few percentages finish up.

“It’s about time.” Katlain disconnects the hard drive and sets everything back like it was.

Katalin makes her way out to the van and looks at Joe. “Got it. Let’s get out of here.”

“Alright.” Joe puts the van into gear and returns to the old police station.