[2027]
Glitch: The fuck do you mean?
Agent K: There was a Blackwatch raid a couple of days ago on my compound.
Agent K: Before I ran like hell, I heard the names of the fuckers who stole the hard drive.
Agent K: Alice and Dallas.
Glitch: Never heard of them.
Agent K: Neither have I. They were recruited to the agency in 2026. We were both at large at that time.
Glitch: How in the FUCK did two first-years get an assignment as important as retrieving that fucking hard drive?
Agent K: You think I fucking know?!
Mia: What the fuck is going on?
Glitch: …
Agent K: …
Agent K: Alright, listen up, 'cause this shit's complicated.
Glitch: Back when I still worked for Blackwatch, I had a partner named Nestor. He predicted his own death and told me that if he ever died, I should retrieve a hard drive from his safe house. The drive was empty, but…
Mia: Let me guess—just encrypted?
Agent K: Yeah. And after a few years, he met me, and I helped him decode as much as we could. We didn't find much—except for the file name.
Glitch: Zach Manstor. A legend in Blackwatch. He disappeared the day Blackwatch was betrayed. He was also Agent 47's mentor.
Mia: Agent 47…?
Glitch: Remember when we first met? That fishing dock? The people who were dead—that was Agent 47 and his team.
Glitch: They were the ones who betrayed Blackwatch… and the ones who killed Nestor.
Mia: … I'm still not sure what Blackwatch even is.
Glitch: A criminal organization. Run by the real-world government. Doing whatever it takes to stay in power.
Mia: Then why did you work for them?
Glitch: … Too complicated to get into.
Agent K: Anyway, as we were saying—the files on the drive were encrypted, but they were linked to Zach, who was linked to 47. So we assumed whatever was on there was important. Then Glitch got kidnapped, and I ran like hell before they could grab me too. Before they took him, he told me not to come looking for him—just to protect the drive. So I did.
Mia: And now it's… what? Gone?
Agent K: Stolen. And we need that shit fucking back.
Mia: Alright, so what's the plan?
Safehouse – Preparing for the Mission
A dimly lit room. The air smells of old gunpowder and cheap coffee. The table in the center is cluttered with firearms, tactical vests, and surveillance equipment.
Glitch secures the last strap of his vest, adjusting his sidearm. Agent K double-checks the shells in his shotgun, while Mia sits across from them, arms crossed, glaring.
Mia: Let me get this straight. You want me—an FBI agent—to use government resources to track down two armed criminals so that you two can storm into their apartment and rob them at gunpoint?
Glitch: Rob is a strong word.
Mia: It's literally the word for what you're doing.
Agent K: It's not robbery. It's retrieval. That hard drive is ours.
Mia: I shouldn't even be involved in this. This is insane.
Glitch: Look, you wanna find out what's really going on with Blackwatch? This drive has the answers. If we don't get it first, we're dead. And if Blackwatch has it, that means more bodies in the morgue.
Mia exhales sharply, rubbing her temples.
Mia: I can't believe I'm doing this… Fine. But if we do this, we do it my way. No killing, no shootouts in the middle of the city. We go in, we get the drive, and we get out.
Agent K: Works for me.
Glitch: No promises.
Mia glares.
Glitch: Fine. No killing.
She turns her laptop towards them, fingers flying across the keyboard.
Mia: Alice and Dallas. No last names. No records before 2026. That's a ghost identity, meaning someone inside Blackwatch is protecting them.
Agent K: I knew it. Where are they now?
Mia: Last known address is a high-rise downtown. Security's tight, but nothing we can't handle.
Glitch: Then let's move.
Cut to: Outside Alice & Dallas' Apartment – Night
The city hums below them, a sea of neon lights and moving traffic. The three of them stand on the rooftop of a nearby building, eyes locked on their target.
Mia: This place has cameras everywhere. If we trip an alarm, we'll have the FBI, SWAT, and God knows who else on our asses in minutes.
Glitch: Then we don't trip an alarm.
Agent K: We go in quiet.
They make their way to the service entrance, bypassing the main security with forged keycards Mia pulled from FBI records.
Inside, the hallways are eerily silent.
They stop outside Alice and Dallas' door.
Mia: Last chance to do this the smart way.
Glitch: Smart doesn't get things done.
He knocks.
A beat.
The door creaks open slightly—just enough for a dark eye to peer through the crack.
Then—the barrel of a gun is shoved into Glitch's face.
Alice: You've got five seconds to tell me who the fuck you are before I pull this trigger.
Dallas (from inside): Alice?
Glitch doesn't flinch.
Glitch: I think you know exactly who I am.
A tense silence.
Then—Alice pulls the door open completely, revealing her own weapon raised. Dallas stands beside her, gun drawn.
Agent K and Mia immediately pull their weapons.
A Five-way standoff.
Dallas: You're making a mistake.
Mia: You already did when you stole that drive.
Alice: And what exactly are you gonna do about it, FBI?
Mia's grip tightens on her weapon.
Glitch smirks.
Glitch: That depends on how cooperative you're feeling tonight.