Our Only Hope - S01 E12

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Our Only Hope - S01 E12

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When I got a unanimous negative reaction I turned to Boris. “I’ve never seen him before, but there is something about him that looks familiar. Find out anything you can about Dominic Rodriguez. It would seem that the Inner Circle– and I– have done something to his family.”

“On it!” Boris shouted as he climbed back into the van. A few minutes later he came back out. “I had already run everything on him,” he said slowly, “so it was just a matter of putting it together. He doesn’t have any brothers and his father was an only child. He never married and there is no mention of any children.” He paused a moment and then said, “There was a sister. Her name was Sharon. I can’t find much about her other than the fact that she evidently moved to the US and married a man by the name of...”

“David Barrow!” I said forcefully, interrupting him.

“Yeah! How’d you know that?!” he responded in surprise.

“You weren’t in on the final stages of that one,” I said to Boris, “so you never heard their real names.” I could see recognition beginning to dawn in Master Randolph’s and slave ines’s eyes. “Sharon and David Barrow were the couple I always called ‘Bonnie and Clyde.’”

“Bonnie and Clyde?” Boris repeated. Fear was obvious on his face and in his voice. “... the Volkov Kollars’ Bonnie and Clyde?!”

“Dominic Rodriguez needs to disappear permanently,” I said firmly.

Natasha began walking toward the van. “I can arrange that,” she said harshly.

“No!” Master Randolph yelled. Then he said much more calmly, “There are other ways. He can be detained at The Society’s island prison with his sister and her husband. There will be a trial. It will all be legal.”

“Can you arrange that?” I asked. “If they had the names of the entire Inner Circle and the Shadow Council, they are working with someone on the inside. There is a traitor among the members of the Inner Circle.”

“I have other channels,” Master Randolph said. “I can arrange for Master Rod to be transported to the island. In fact, that is probably the safest place for Master Bouchard, slave ines, and myself to go until this is resolved. I can give you the names of a few trusted people, W, but for the most part you are going to have to work alone.”

“Why me?” I asked, trying not to sound as pissed off as I really was.

“The Society has a traitor within it,” Master Randolph said, slowly shaking his head. “Anything we try to do will be thwarted by that unknown person. Only someone working from the outside can act without being immediately found out and betrayed.” He reached up and put his hand on my shoulder. “I’m afraid,” he continued, “that whoever wrote that sign was speaking the truth. W, you are our only hope.”

“I’m with you,” Boris said.

“As your tech nerds from a safe place,” Natasha added. “Daddy has only so many favors to call in.”

“Then let’s get back to Shangri-la number three,” I said. “You can work from there. Besides, I don’t know where to go next.”

“Clyde... David,” Boris said, “must have a couple of brothers who are as nasty as he was. Now that I know what I am looking for, I... and my friends... can track them down.”

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