2012 (8/15) – After the meeting, the team brainstorms ways to get
their hands on $300,000 in gold. First, they could get it from ORION, but
there isn't enough time. Second they consider taking it from local
jewelers, but there isn't enough in one location and would require multiple
heists. They could steal some of the Royal Family's gold collection kept in the
Tower of London, but when they begin plotting the assault realize that the
security for such a job would be overwhelming. Suddenly Owen blurts
out that there is a lot of gold readily available close by... London is
hosting the 2012 Olympics! Stevie says the gold is held in the Tower
of London under heavy security and that it is just too risky for the Team to
get it that way when Blind says “If we don’t stop them now... there may not be another
Olympics.”
Each Olympic gold medal
is worth $45,000 each so they will need to acquire at least 7 gold medals in order to
make the down payment to keep the undercover operaton going. The first plan
was to kidnap different gold medal winning Olympians from smaller countries, but that would create a mass panic and raise the security levels everywhere. They realize the
trick is to make sure no one realizes the medals have been stolen, so they buy
some replica medals and decide to stage a fake sports interview show to get the
medal winners in one location. It may
prove too difficult to coordinate having different medal winners come to one
interview or trying to steal one medal at a time. They debate over which gold medal winning team
to invite to the interview that wouldn’t draw a lot of attention when Guido
says "Mexico, no one will care about the Mexican Soccer team."
The plan: Feto
uses his fame from his international swimming background to pose as the
interviewer and invites seven bench warmers from the Mexican soccer team to his
show. During the interview, they ask for
a picture with all of the players medals on a tray with the Mexican flag on it,
but Blind will hack the light controls so the lights will go out. During the blackout, Guido will swap the tray of real medals for a
tray of replicas and the only risks is the players noticing during or after the swap.
The
result: The Mexican players are not
alarmed with the blackout (Guido "power loss is common in Mexico.") while one player has
a hint that something is wrong when he inspects his medal, he shrugs it off. After all, he is just happy to have the
gold medal that will feed his family and village for years. The heist works and the ORION team spends the
rest of the day smelting the Olympic medals into two gold bars that will be the
down payment they need to keep the undercover operation going.
At the exchange, Amir tests the
gold and satisfied that it is authentic he agrees to the deal to see them on the
28th with the entire order of Chemical Weapons launchers as long as they
bring the rest of the gold bullion they owe him.
When the
team returns to the hotel for some much needed rest the evening news reports that
the bomb in the trunk of the Nigerian nationals resulted in an international
incident between the UK and Nigeria with tension being at an all time high.
Their rest will be short lived, as in the morning they have to pick up the trail of the missing ORION agent, Paul Anderson before its too late.
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