Shave That Thing

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Goldson asks Sharkey if he could call with the results as soon as he gets them, then promptly adjourns the ad hoc meeting. Sharkey and Bess quick-change back into Davis and Saunders en route to their suite and immediately call HQ with the good news. Julie accepts the in-bound call and summons The Queen, Harlan and myself for the group conference call, but not before congratulating the pair on their superb undercover work.

"Yes, thanks, it was a bit more drama than we were expecting but everything turned out for the best, looks like Goldman is in. You should have seen the look on his face when he inspected the damage to the fat perps nose after Saunders planted one on him."

"We saw," suddenly pipes in The Queen, "And, although there is a differencing of opinion I think your mustache is cool."

"One: How did you see? And two: Who is the dissenter - or dissenters?" Davis asks, felling rejuvenated to have the win under belt and be chatting with teammates again.

"When I, we, hacked the gaming code I took advantage of an open socket to tap into their house security feeds and we watched pretty much the whole show. You two rocked the casbah! We watched Saunders' sucker-punch in a super slow motion replay and she actually lifted him off the ground, freaking awesome, Cap said it was the greatest haymaker he's ever seen outside of pro boxing."

"OK, glad we had some entertainment value, but back to business, Goldson wants their gaming platform restored to its original version asap. I told him it might take an hour."

"Already done. I hope they will be happy with their crappy code. If you feel that we can leverage our far superior expertise to advance the agenda, I think we would be happy to assist," The Queen volunteers, looking at Julie for a nod of affirmation, which she instantly gets.

"You have eyes on Goldson too?"

"Just ears. From the bug your Italian CI planted. He should protect devices of that sort, even Goldson's geeks, and it pains me to use that word on those hacks, could tap into its frequency for a low-res listen."

"Is there anything that I can tell you that you don't already know?" Davis asks incredulously.

"Yes, one thing. Harlan wants to know what made you think the Rams could have possibly won?"

Amid the generous laughter, Julie adds a gratuitous final zinger, "Oh, and Davis?"

"Yes?"

"Shave that thing."