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Mira, seeing the fire starting in an adjoining building, breaks into a side entrance and heads up the fire stairs. There's no alarm, but she encounters someone coming downstairs quickly. She aims, and he reacts by pointing a gun. A quick, disabling volley ensues, leaving her in possession of an unconscious bleeding man, to be dragged downstairs just as the alarm finally goes off and the stairwell is flooded by panicky people ...

Outside, the others begin cooperation with the local police as they arrive, gradually extricating themselves -- and the body of Laney Benton, along with the stray hand -- from the scene. Calvin identifies the hand as belonging to William Fredericks, the "Freddy Five-Fingers" whom Laney was meeting with. Why he had a gun out at the last second before the bomb went off is as yet unknown.

The team removes the body (and part), and the unconscious assailant, to an Agency holding facility. The man is patched up, while the team considers what to do about the unprofessional and possibly hazardous interference by Mr Finch. Dylan submits a full report to the Agency of the situation, even while Calvin is sicked on Finch's private records and accounts.

Number Three contacts Dylan and, while not reassuring him that all has been handled with Finch, strongly suggests that the team start moving more actively on the case. To that end ...

... Dylan stays behind at the facility to handle the interrogation of the prisoner.

... Lou attempts to find out more about Benton's body (?)

... Calvin and Mira head off to investigate Laney Benton's brownstone.

... Gina heads off to investigate William Fredericks' apartment.

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The assailant, though carrying ID as one Jacob Geist, is identified by fingerprints as Jonathan Gaines, who has a record of suspicion in various killing and assassinations. Dylan's insightful grilling of him reveals that he was hired to kill both Benson and Fredericks, that he'd infiltrated the restaurant the night before to plant shaped charges when they were to exit, and that, had that plan failed, he'd had plans to shoot them on the street. He had no idea of who his employers were, nor were they to contact him aside from the final payment arriving. It was all very professional and isolated. The fire had been caused when he was destroying the hotel room he'd rented to observe and trigger the bomb from.

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Gina poses to the clerk at the entrance of Fredericks' surprisingly upscale apartment as a nudge-nudge-wink-wink visitor.

While ransacking the joint, she receives a call from the front desk that visitors are headed up. She grabs what she's found from the tastefully (yet mildly pornographically) decorated flat (his hard drive, from his safe) and vamooses out of there before the "visitors" come in. Thuggy looking sorts.

Gina took license plates.

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Lou, best able to imitate a policeman, goes to the city morgue to confirm that the bodies (including the rest of Freddy) had been delivered (on the chance that he had just chopped his hand off, or something).

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Calvin and Mira discover that Benton's brownstone is actually surrounded by guards -- one outside the front door, one at a bus stop across the stree,t one on the roof, and one in the alley behind. They strike at that one; Mira keys his car, then runs, with him in pursuit, while Calvin picks the lock and sneaks inside ...

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