Operation: Motherly Betrayal

2012 (8/22) -  The audio picked up via the bug at 14 Opal Street which reveals Walter and a man named Peter discover the break in and agree to act fast before anyone realizes what they are up to by heading to Indonesia the next day.   Since their mission was to find Paul Anderson, the team decides to split up with Feto flying Jakarta to follow the men and the rest going to Wisconsin to speak with Paul’s sister, Bobbi.

After a layover in Boston (where they deliver Paul’s laptop to Stevie) they arrive in Madison, Wisconsin at Bobbi’s home finding her now an older, heavier shell of the super agent she used to be.  When Bobbi inquires why they are visiting, Guido bluntly asks why she is getting $7,000.00 payments into her account each week and never mentioned her shared ownership of the apartment in Prague with her brother Paul.  Bobbi excuses herself to usher her two children to their upstairs bedroom.   She claims to have no knowledge of the money, hasn’t seen Paul since Christmas and professes to live a simple life as the wife of a Commercial Fisherman.  She fetches her lap top to dispute their claims and offers it to them to check for themselves.  When it opens a flash bang device goes off blinding the team as Bobbi draws a pistol and shoots Owen in the abdomen!   Using the surprise to her advantage she flees into the game room and takes cover behind the pool table.  During the exchange of gunfire, Bobbi screams “Why did you come?  Why?  WHYYYYY?” as Guido responds “Cover me guys, I’ma’ goin’ for dah kids!”.   Bobbi screams back at Guido  “Go ahead and take em, you filthy wop!” and shoots Owen in the stomach again.  Under a barrage of fire, Bobbi stands up, screams “It’s over Darkwind!” and shoots Owen in the stomach a third time sending him crashing over the living room unconscious!  

Guido reaches the second floor hallway and searches for the children where he finds an escape ladder on the window.  Guido yells “It didn't have to be this way!” and fires a round in the ceiling to which Bobbi retorts “They are long gone, WOP!”   Guido returns down stairs uses lifts Owen as a ‘meat-shield’ while carrying him to safety.  Vladislav shoots Bobbi in the leg and Guido fires off a shot that hits her in the heart and sends her lifeless body flying backwards through the sliding glass door just as her husband, walks in!  The husband, dressed in a full length yellow rain slicker raises his razor sharp fish hook and screams “NOOO!  My wife!  Owen Darkwind, you killed my father!  Now I... will kill you!”  He charges in and misses Guido with a swipe to which Guido unloads a point blank shot into the Fisherman’s chest, killing him instantly! They are unable to locate Bobbi’s children and decide to leave before the authorities arrive and Owen dies of blood loss.from his numerous gunshot wounds.  

While Owen is patched up, they watch the evening news.  The lead story is about the rising tensions in Nigeria as a militant faction is attempts to acquire chemical weapons to take over the government.  Before they can discuss it, breaking news story about a home invasion in Madison where the police have discovered  the body a slain middle-aged woman. (bom bom bommmmm!)  

The next morning the go to Bobbi's bank and uses her keys to access her security box where they discover a pistol, a folder of  files, passports and $200.000 in cash.  The detailed files detail Paul’s plan to double cross the SLA in order to sell the weapons to the Nigerians.  There also current photos of Owen and ORION’s leader, Ted Tyler as well as a log in and password for operation: Flashpoint.  Owen recalls Operation: Flashpoint as a mission to investigate a remote island off the coast Africa in which he and Ted were lured out of retirement for a mission that went so badly, neither of then has spoken of it since.  Darkwind gets the feeling that this may be where Paul Anderson is hiding, but keeps it to himself. 

The team returns to ORION’s Boston headquarters and Stevie reveals that the man who flew with Walter was a man named Peter Hupert (a black marketeer, smuggler with a Masters degree in anthropology) and is still being followed by Feto in Jakarta.   They decide to return to England and see if they can find any clues to discover the location of Paul Anderson.  When they arrive in London, they go to the home of Walter Wainwright, but find the house empty and nothing of value to help on their mission.   They come to the realization that Paul Anderson may have gone bad like his sister Bobbi, so trying to locate him may be fruitless.  The team knows they need to keep the weapons out of the hands of the Nigeria militia, but have a week before the weapons deal is due.

The teams next step is to decide if they will go to Jakarta to investigate the connection between Greggor Iradirfoff -Walter Wainwright and Avalon or to follow up on the Paul Anderson-Serbian Liberation Army-Maccareesh-Nigeria Militia connection to see if Paul may be held there.  Has ORION agent Paul Anderson turned?  Where will the ORION team go?  Will Owen reveal the truth behind Operation Flashpoint?