Falco Special Effects, New York:
Agent Amos and Agent Wears pull up to an old-looking building that looks like it used to be a bank. Agent Amos parks the car across the street from the building. A plain-looking van parks behind him as he and his partner exit the car they arrived in.
“Ms. Falco wasn’t joking when she said that the building she worked out of used to be a bank.” Agent Wears could see how the building looked.
“Well, at least the weapons are secured in the old bank vault this building has.” Agent Amos started crossing the street towards the building.
Agent Wears follows behind her partner. She signals the crew in the van to wait for their signal before coming in. The front of the building had a car parked in front of it.
Teela was inside the main lobby, waiting for Agent Amos and Agent Wears to arrive. She took a sip from her coffee cup as she spotted them walking across the street.
“Morning agents. I’m sorry I don’t have coffee for you guys.” Teela watches as the two agents enter the building.
“That’s fine. I’ve already had enough this morning.” A smile appears on Agent Amos’s face.
“This is a neat place you have here.” Agent Wears looked around and liked how the building looked.
“I liked it. If you’ll follow me down to the vault, agents. I’ll show you the guns that were shipped to me and my partner by accident.” Teela turns
and starts walking further into the building.
Agent Amos and Agent Wears follow behind her. They go down several flights of stairs with a secure door you have to go through.
“Ms. Falco, this bank. Has it ever been robbed?” Agent Wears was curious.
“If I remember right, it was robbed in March of 1972. The perps didn’t get far before they were apprehended.”
“I bet they got some serious time.” Agent Amos could imagine what the law was like back in 1972.
“Trust me, agent, back then, crooks weren’t as smart as they are now.” Teela stops in front of the vault door.
She takes an old-fashioned skeleton key out of her pants pocket, inserts it into the keyhole, and turns it three times. Afterward, she enters the combination to the central lock at least twice and turns a huge stainless steel wheel. She pulls on the wheel to open the vault door.
“Do you need any help?” Agent Amos saw how big the vault door was.
“Thanks, but I’m fine.” Teela tucks the key back into her pants pocket.
“Aren’t you worried about this door being shut while you're inside the vault?” Agent Wears looks at Teela when she says that.
“Nope, the lock won’t engage unless the skeleton key is in the locking mechanism.”
“How many of those keys do you have?” Agent Amos was curious.
“Two. The second one is in my wall safe upstairs in my studio.” Teela opens the gate and leads the two agents inside the safe.
Both agents noticed two shipping crates sitting in the middle of the room. They could tell they had been opened. There was also a floor jack in the safe.
“How did you get these in here?” Agent Wears looks towards Teela.
“A cargo elevator leads here from the loading dock behind the building. If you have your agents drive the van around, I can help them load these boxes.”
“I want to check these weapons out.” Agent Amos walks over to one and uses the crowbar he spotted to open the crates.
Agent Amos opened the crates and spotted the weapons inside. He picked one up to examine it and could tell it was real. It wasn’t a fake weapon.
“How many guns are in each crate?” Agent Amos looks towards Teela.
“Fifty in this crate, and forty in this crate, along with a bunch of grenades.”
“Grenades?” Agent Wears looks at Teela when she says grenades.
“Yep, grenades. Now, you know why we stored them down here in the vault. Why don’t you have your men pull around to the loading dock and
we’ll get these things loaded.” Teela walks over to the pallet jack and jacks the pallet the shipping crates are on up.
Agent Wears steps outside of the vault and calls the men that came with them. Agent Amos helps Teela move the pallets. They load them onto the cargo elevator to take them to the next floor.
Agent Wears ends her phone call and looks over towards Teela and her partner. “The guys are going to meet us at the loading dock.”
“Okay.”