Tarasha - Season 4 - Episode 14

Episode 4 years ago

Tarasha - Season 4 - Episode 14

☆☆
………………………………………………………………………

‘I wish I could just go with a communication device of any kind,’ Lizzy spoke aloud, seated some distance behind Dave who was working on a computer system.
‘The only thing you can go with is a recorder, so that I can hear your conversation but there’s no way you’ll be able to hear me talk to you without him knowing. Even if there was a transparent coloured earpiece, he would still know from your movements.’ Dave replied.
‘What exact information do you think I can get from him?’
‘I think you should just get to know yourselves for now, it’ll be difficult to get anything from him today.’
‘I know but you should also remember that we’ve not got all the time.’
‘Well, what I really need to know from him is who his boss really is, her mission and her sponsor.’
‘We can never get those information from him, he’s never going to tell us.’
‘Yes, but he’s still our key to her.’
‘How do we use the key then?’
‘First,’ he paused to check the time on his wristwatch. ‘It’s 5:48pm already, he would be calling you very soon. From that, we can get where he comes from – their base.’
‘Getting his base is just a step out of several steps.’

‘Yes, I know.’ he said and got up from his seat. He turned towards her and squatted right in front of her, placing both hands on the armrests. ‘Lizzy, the rest lies in your hands. How can you make him fall completely for you and trust you?’
She stared at him speechlessly for a while. ‘Why do we need him to fall for me?’ she asked with a slight frown.
‘If that happens, he’s going to get comfortable with you and eventually careless, then we can extract a lot of information from him. Information on how to get into their base successfully when we finally need to.’
‘But I don’t want to dip my hands too far in this case, it might disturb my involvement in the cases I’m involved in.’
‘Hmm,’ Dave sighed thoughtfully and rose up. He walked slowly to the window and opened the curtain. ‘I don’t really know how else to do this, the only option I’ve got apart from this is to follow the Chairman’s order.’


‘And are you really considering that?’
‘What other option do I have?’ Dave turned back towards her, his fingers still on the burglary proof metals.
There was silence for some seconds.
‘You have a lady in your team, don’t you?’

‘Yes,’ he chuckled briefly and shifted his stare to the ground. ‘But she’s on the chairman’s side already, anyone who isn’t either loses his job or gets demoted.’
‘But you can’t just get demoted or fired without a reasonable cause,’ she stared at him with her eyebrows gathered together.
‘It’s starts with taking the case off your hands first, then they’ll find a cause to fire or demote you. You know how easy it is to be set up at the NIS especially those of us that has worked and works as Undercovers.’
‘But you can’t just give in yet, this case is top notch and solving it will not just make news in Nigeria, it will be worthy of news all over the world.’
‘It’s not even about making news, I believe that solving this case will reveal a lot of secrets that could alter the destiny of the country for good. But what other option do I have when the ones who sent me are willing to pay me to be dishonest in the job they gave me?’ he asked, now staring at her face. ‘I’ve got no one on my team who thinks like I do.’
‘Alright,’ Lizzy took in a breath and rose to her feet. ‘Let’s see how far I can go, I’m not sure I can go too far.’
Dave raised his eyebrow, ‘I don’t think you have to go too far but I think your little input will make a huge difference. So do you agree to continue with me?’
‘Ermm… Let me say I’ll continue until there’s need for me to pull out,’ she replied.

‘Oh! Thanks,’ he said with a brief smile. He began to walk towards her with his hands stretched out for an handshake. He would have given her a hug but the atmosphere felt too ‘official’ for that.
‘Hold on,’ she said with a hand up and palm faced towards him. He halted. ‘You said you wanted him to fall completely for me but we started on wrong note already, it might be difficult to get him to like me at all.’
‘It’s your job, I believe you can do it.’ Dave said and slowly put his hands in his pockets. ‘But what makes you think it’ll be difficult for him to like you, if he doesn’t like you yet, why then has he asked you out?’
‘I displayed my body to him and that’s what he wants, he wants to sleep with me.’ she said with a sorry look on her face.
Dave folded his arms. ‘I don’t know why I believe otherwise, he’s a crook that shouldn’t have time for girls, if he wanted to get down with you, he would have just offered you money and told you the hotel he wants you to meet him.’
‘That’s not too late, he could still do it.’
‘I don’t think he…’ the ringtone of a phone cut Dave short. Both of them looked at each other’s face for a second and then at the table where the phone was ringing the next second. ‘Don’t answer it yet,’ Dave said as he rushed back to the computer system.
Lizzy walked to the table and picked up the phone, the number displayed had no name attached but there was only one person she had given the number of the sim in the phone. While the phone was still ringing, she swiped down the notification bar to check if the data connection was on, wondering why the Reveal Caller application was not displaying the registered name of the caller.
‘There’s no caller name displayed,’ she said aloud after confirming that it was connected a source of data. The phone stopped ringing.
‘Is the data connection of that phone on?’ Dave paused briefly to ask.
‘It’s connected to your hotspot.’
The phone began to ring again. Dave typed in some more commands with the keyboard and ended with the enter key. ‘You can answer it now.’

Lizzy took two back steps before answering the call. ‘Hello.’
‘Hi Patricia, Good evening.’
‘Good… evening,’ she replied, making hesitation sound in her voice. ‘Who’s on the line please?’

‘It’s Victor,’ the voice replied. ‘I received the foodstuffs supply on behalf of Alexander Kimberly today.’
‘Oh! Victor,’ she sounded surprised.
‘I promised to take you out tonight, remember?’
‘Oh yes, but… I’m kind of busy right now,’ she replied, making it sound as if she had forgotten about the outing before.
‘Come on, what are you doing? It’s just past six now, it would be okay if you can round up in few minutes time.’
‘No, it might take a little bit longer. I’m actually cooking.’

‘Cooking?’
‘Yes.’
‘But I promised to take you out for dinner already,’ the voice sounded disappointed. ‘Or do you want me to join you for dinner at your place?’
‘Oh no, my parents would not like that.’
‘I see… So how do we do it?’
‘Maybe I should call you when I’m ready,’ she suggested.
‘Okay, that would be nice. I’ll be waiting for your call,’ he said.
‘Okay.’ she replied and the call ended.
She met a frown on Dave’s face as she got to his table. He had his back rested and his hands folded with this eyes staring up.
‘Top security in their building,’ he said and sat up on noticing her by his side.
‘You could not determine the location?’
‘Yes, I couldn’t. The building is protected, the map is displaying a location not in the country or even Africa.’ he stopped and tapped the keyboard to confirm the location displayed. ‘It’s Russia.’
‘Russia? How possible is that?’
‘It’s not possible that he’s speaking to you from Russia but it could mean that the configuration they use for the ultimate server in the building was set up in Russia.’
‘That’s crazy, we have to take another step then.’ she said and pulled a seat to sit beside him.


‘I think you should get dressed now,’ he said. ‘Put on something sexy to keep him asking for more,’ he added with a smile.
‘Asking for more what?’ She bit her lips. ‘I thought you wanted him to fall for me now.’
‘Yes, Ermm…’ he scratched his head. ‘I thought dressing in a sexy way will help you achieve that.’
‘That’s not important at all, it’ll only make him want to take me to bed the more. And the special thing about this is that he’s a well trained assasin, I don’t think we can hold him down, send him crazy or get him addicted to me with good sex.’
‘I can assure you that most male assassins love to sleep with women a lot and some of them can’t go a day without it.’
‘But do you know that as crazy as they are for se*x, some shoot dead the ladies they sleep with immediately after everything and go for another girl the next day?’ she asked and Dave couldn’t give an answer. ‘The thing is that they love se*x but never get attached to the girls. They only see them as tools and nothing more.’
‘Well, I don’t have anything to say about this anymore. It’s your specialization, you how you do it and I trust you to handle it well,’ he shrugged.
‘Since you’ll be watching and listening, you have to read us in between the lines. I’ll call this a well calculated risk, he could try to kill me if he notices anything.’
‘Okay, just do your job.’ Dave said and got up. ‘When you’re ready to go, I need you to tell me. You’ll call him twice, one to inform him that you’re ready and then will we’ll give him a space of some minutes to get out of the building he is in and then you call him again. The whole street or area can’t be protected even if the building is protected.’
_______