March 19, 2025 • 24 mins
After a steamy night together, Juan presses Fernando to open up about his family. In a flashback, Fernando retells his bumpy history with Gigi and the job that finally tore them apart.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
The setup Episode six and then Surah cappin.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Oh one, last night was perfect and well, you're so
so great at sex.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I agree, Fernando, last night was magical and I'm so
rested and refreshed even after all that incredible.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Set a cloud made of love and trust.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
And ring ring ring ring ring. Uh, Fernando, are you
saying what I think you're saying?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Ring ring ring?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Fernando?
Speaker 5 (00:44):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Are you proposing right now?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Oh god, my HP six and calls, Oh, she's totally
gonna build my insurance for the session.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
One.
Speaker 6 (01:01):
I'm concerned you have it returned?
Speaker 7 (01:02):
My calls? Is everything?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Woll What time is it?
Speaker 8 (01:08):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Just just before nine? Wait, we slept in for the.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
First time in a while. How about it make us
some breakfast? If I remember correctly, we've burned quite a
few calories last night.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Am I still dreaming? Did you just suffer to make
me breakfast after we? I mean, after what we did
last night?
Speaker 8 (01:26):
Oh? And tell me what exactly did we do last night? One? Well, we.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I guess we uh wait, do you not remember it?
Do we not have sex?
Speaker 7 (01:39):
What was a dream?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Too? We absolutely had sex one and it definitely merits
a homemade breakfast.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
You have egs right, Uh yeah, top shelf.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
Did something happen with an adult one?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Uh yeah, sorry, doc slept in. I think I think, well,
I think maybe if if it's okay, I don't I
don't need a session today or tomorrow or for a
few weeks. Things are, things are going really well. Actually
I think I got this. Oh wait, Nando, I'll show
you my technique for the perfect soft scramble.
Speaker 8 (02:31):
H very pretty good.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Huh so are we going to talk about it?
Speaker 8 (02:38):
This is? This is really good talk talk about.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
What what happened at Mike's about Gigi. I think we
should start thinking about the next step.
Speaker 8 (02:46):
And I you know soft scramble was the right choice.
You are a hell of a chef.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Look, I can't imagine it's easy for you to.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Talk about usually more of an over easy man myself
with this, this is might be my new go to breakfast.
Speaker 8 (03:06):
Okay, all right, fine, what do you want to know?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
How long do you think Gigi's been tailing.
Speaker 8 (03:12):
Us, knowing gig since the moment we started?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
So then what if g has the painting, then we're
just done.
Speaker 8 (03:19):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
We just throw in the towel.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
You know it is gorgeous out. Why do we take
Indie to the park. You can grab a couple of coffee.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
That sounds incredible, really really incredible. But I feel like
you're not telling me something. Did something happen between you
and Gig? I hope you know you can tell me anything.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I know.
Speaker 8 (03:45):
I know I can loot.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
But right now, India needs a nice long walk and
we need to split a croissant from La de Rey and.
Speaker 8 (03:56):
Stroll around the fountain. And while we stroll, you can
maybe let.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Me in on why your cousin has helpent on taking
the business from you. Maybe I'm not taking no for
an answer.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I look at that couple of them. They're just sitting
there and might even talk thing there in love just silence.
Maybe silence silences love sometimes. Oh God, I don't even
know where to begin.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
How about the beginning?
Speaker 8 (04:36):
Right beginning?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I guess it all started in conning class when we
were kidding a kid.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
All right, gentlemen, we will begin today's instruction with an
oral pop quiz.
Speaker 9 (04:54):
Hey, g high escore, it's five bucks.
Speaker 7 (04:58):
You're a loser. Please name the official code associated with
a breach of identity when conducting and undercover extraction.
Speaker 9 (05:08):
Well, that's technically a trick question. There are two codes.
Cod perwinkle refers to a breach of your own identity,
while code Jasmine is used when your partner's identity has
been compromised.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
Correct, very good, Fernando.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
One, No, not for long?
Speaker 8 (05:26):
Gg.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
What is the official protocol for identifying a mark and
gaining their trust?
Speaker 9 (05:32):
Easy?
Speaker 10 (05:33):
That would be ICCAs Identify Contact charm secure correct one
one whatever.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
Good morning, miss master Ignacio. My apologies, did we have
a meeting schedule? No?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
No, no no, I've simply come to observe my son
in action.
Speaker 7 (05:54):
Yes, of course, you're welcome. Please come in, Please continue
the lesson. All right, Fernando, tell me which Conning empire
is banned entirely in Europe?
Speaker 8 (06:06):
And why?
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Right?
Speaker 9 (06:09):
I know this one? M Yeah, that would be the.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Silent Shadow Empire.
Speaker 9 (06:18):
They're one of the few Conning families whose identity has
been kept securely under wraps. They were a top empire
until they broke one of the Sacred seven Treaty laws,
banning them from the entire European continent.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Excellent, And which law did they break?
Speaker 8 (06:34):
Right?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
They?
Speaker 9 (06:36):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (06:38):
It was it was the most important law of all,
never under any circumstances betray another conning empire. What it
just seemed like you were struggling.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
Children, Please focus, interruption, but I'd like to speak with
my son for a moment.
Speaker 10 (06:57):
Ah, pokaz, I'm sure you'll do better next time.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Such a little mumble outside, no bir.
Speaker 8 (07:09):
My father demanded perfection.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
But Gigi was always in the way, and I wasn't
the only one who noticed. As we got older, the
other kids who ran in our circle avoided her like
the plague.
Speaker 8 (07:19):
Gigi was obsessed with the car.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Everything and everyone was simply a game. And then, after
hours of listening to the back and forth bullshit, I
did what I knew I had to do.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
I intercepted the mark.
Speaker 7 (07:35):
How freaking way, dude.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I refused to believe you did that in broad daylight,
no cover, no bread, no breath, Not to mention breaking observation,
only protocol.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
I did.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
I undercepted the mark and got the job done before
either of those level one nudies.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Could even realize when it happened.
Speaker 8 (07:56):
And your dad didn't kill you.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Out of me for three weeks, I know it, but
not beforehanding me a bottle of mccalling thirty.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Oh yeah, man, So uh, where's this solicit date of yours?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Jem It's Jen and she's amazing.
Speaker 8 (08:19):
It's not like other girls I talk to.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
She's smart, it's funny, she.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
Does g.
Speaker 11 (08:28):
Hey boys, Sorry, I'm late.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
I think my inf I got.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Lost in the meal.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Fernando, what the hell is your cousin doing her party?
You're not on the list.
Speaker 11 (08:42):
Oh you're right, I'm not on the list, but you'll
find that.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Little miss Jenny Cherry.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
What's wrong, honey?
Speaker 11 (08:53):
I thought you'd be so happy to finally meet person.
Speaker 8 (09:01):
We're leaving.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Get your psycho cousin off my poot, Fernando.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
Jill on it?
Speaker 11 (09:07):
Oh yeah, Jill, you wouldn't want to pop a blood
vessel all over daddy's yacht.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
I'm coming.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Oh oh god, what.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
The hell were you thinking? Chat Fishy my best friend?
Are you nuts?
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Always that that big of a deal.
Speaker 11 (09:27):
Nick's bruised ego will recover.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I can't do this anymore.
Speaker 7 (09:31):
You're ruining my life.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Oh, don't be so dramatic.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Don't you get it?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Nobody Noboddy wants you here.
Speaker 7 (09:38):
These are my friends, not yours.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
You think you're hot?
Speaker 7 (09:43):
Shit?
Speaker 11 (09:43):
Don't you that your daddy's little conning prodigy. Let me
guess you were telling Nick the interception story from last month.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
So what so I'm assuming.
Speaker 11 (09:55):
You conveniently left off the part where I was the
one who suggested we intercept the mar in the first place.
That's not it, Fernando, take me out of the equation
and your nothing.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
She had this way of always saying the perfect thing
to mess with my head.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
I was desperate to get her out of my life.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Honestly, I never understood why she had to live with
us when she had her own family. And then one
day I overheard my dad talking to her parents.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Gigi, what are you doing?
Speaker 6 (10:39):
I'm eavesdriving's the girl is temperamental, emotional, completely unstable.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Who are they talking about?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Balance?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
She thought of her class, you know, just last week
she writes number one Enricauds and intelligence.
Speaker 10 (10:57):
We really don't have time for.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
Your daughter we are talking about I don't care how
talented she is.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
She's a lionlf I.
Speaker 8 (11:11):
Your son.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
On the other hand, he shall promise he plays by
the rules, follows the code. He can be molded into
a useful tool for the empire.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Gig.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Wait, things were never the same after that. Now, I
was no longer just friendly competition. I was her enemy.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
Conning turned reckless dead man.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
She became obsessed with one upping me, desperate to win
my dad's favorite. Luckily, after graduation we were able to
part ways. I established myself as a lead con man
and I thought I was reaching my calling and then
the Zurich case came along.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Thank you for taking the time to meet with me.
I know you both are very busy, and probably, of.
Speaker 8 (12:24):
Course, Uncle, I'm not so busy. But what is this
all about.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
There's a job one that requires a cone of the
highest galliper.
Speaker 8 (12:32):
So what this is like? You want us to prove
which one of us has what it takes.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Oh, let's be real.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
That's no competition, shut up, bite me.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Oh come on, no, no, no, no, This case calls
for both of you to work together.
Speaker 8 (12:51):
What you're joking, red, I don't joke for no.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
No, but I can't work with him.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
He'll slow excuse I will slow you down.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
I'll go cry about it.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Yes, maybe I was wrong about the two of you
working together.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
No, I can do it. I can work with him.
Speaker 8 (13:13):
Yeah, we can take care of it.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Very well. This job will take you to Zurich. You
two must infiltrate a highly secretive and illegal society of
artifact collectors. Once you gain their trust, you must sneak
into their underground vault beneath the streets of Zurich, from
which you will retrieve the Golden Rose circlet. An ancient
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Roman crown is for a high profile client, which means
a large reward if you are successful, but dire consequences.
Speaker 8 (13:50):
If you fail. I can do it.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Oh, we can do it, right, isn't that what I said.
I'm counting on you.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
Do not let me down.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Things started off surprisingly well. Gigi and I managed to
infiltrate the society by posing as a pair of wealthy
Russian siblings in the illegal artifact trade. Despite our rivalry,
we were a solid team. Gigi was especially skilled in
impersonation and deception. I was strongest at ricon and extraction. Honestly,
we probably would have had a lasting partnership that had
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not been for what happened the night of the Society ball.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
Now, remember, you're only going to have five minutes to
get into the vault. Well I distract the Countess. Her
security will follow her to Helen back, so if I
can keep her away, from the private wing. You'll have
the clear, but the window will be small. Five minutes,
no more, no less.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Got it?
Speaker 8 (14:52):
I got it the first twenty times you told.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Me, Well, you tend to be late.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
I do not.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
You hesitate, you always hesitate.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Whatever, How are you so sure you can distract the
countess anyway?
Speaker 6 (15:05):
Donan though, Please look at me. I'm hot. That is
my distraction.
Speaker 8 (15:10):
Okay, if you say so, is your your piece on
loud and clear?
Speaker 11 (15:16):
Good?
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Now? M are you ready, dear brother da?
Speaker 8 (15:24):
Of course system.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
At first everything went according to plan. Gigi was annoyingly
good at distracting the Countess, which offered me the perfect
opportunity to sneak around your security and get into the basement. Okay,
I'm approaching the vault.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
Remember you only have five minutes. I know how many
guards at.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
The vault entrance one?
Speaker 8 (15:53):
Two, three?
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Easy enough, eliminate them, but make sure you keep one
some of my conscious for the retina scann.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
Not eliminating anyone. You promised me.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
No casualties, No unnecessary casualties.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
There are ways to do a threat without killing them.
Speaker 11 (16:11):
Boring.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
All right, my darling Countess is beckoning me for another dance.
See you on the other side cuts.
Speaker 10 (16:22):
You.
Speaker 8 (16:25):
Hey, excuse me, how are you doing to night fellas?
Is this the line for the excuse me? Is this
the line for the bathroom? I mean you lost friends?
Speaker 4 (16:38):
No bathroom here?
Speaker 8 (16:40):
Sorry? What you go upstairs?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
No guests allowed here.
Speaker 8 (16:45):
I'm a society member. For your information.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
No close, I'm afraid I'm going to have to get
the tidiest bit closer up.
Speaker 8 (17:05):
Easy enough and no casualties.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Apologies, friend, but I do need to borrow your eye
from that. No please, please, oh my god, no listen,
I'm not gonna take your eye.
Speaker 10 (17:18):
Just no, please, please.
Speaker 8 (17:20):
Don't think I'm sorry. Holy shit, gg I'm in do
you hear me?
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Got a bit distracted? I'm afraid?
Speaker 8 (17:40):
Shit, Countess a pleasure.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
I wish I could say the same. Unfortunately, I have
some bad news to share with you.
Speaker 8 (17:50):
And what might that be?
Speaker 5 (17:51):
If you take that circlet come tomorrow, your dear cousin
will betray you.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Don't be ridiculous. She might be cleanly insane, but we're family.
She wouldn't do that.
Speaker 8 (18:03):
She can't.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
It's against our code.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
If you're so sure, zen, go ahead take it.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
You expect me to believe you'll just let me waltz
out of here with the circuit. No fight, no alarm bells,
you have my word.
Speaker 8 (18:20):
I was torn.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Part of me wanted so badly to believe that, maybe,
just maybe my cousin wasn't the terrible person everyone thought
she was. So I made the decision to ignore the
Countess's warning and believe Gig. Once I took that circuit,
the Countess kept her word and let us walk out
of their unharmed.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
I didn't tell Gigi about what happened.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
In the bolt.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Once we got to the plane, a plane that was
meant to take us back home, I started to get
a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
I mean, look at this thing.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
I can't even count how many rubies it has.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
It's insane.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Yeah, what's wrong?
Speaker 8 (19:28):
What do you mean? What?
Speaker 3 (19:29):
What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (19:31):
I've known you my entire life. I know when something
is bothering you, you get all fidgety, no, sweaty.
Speaker 8 (19:38):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I'm fine, I'm just I'm ready to get home. Could
I could I see the circlet for a second?
Speaker 7 (19:45):
What for?
Speaker 8 (19:46):
Do I need a reason?
Speaker 6 (19:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (19:48):
You do? Okay, seriously hand it over.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
No, I don't like your tone.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
Come on, you give me the circlet.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Why are you being so insistent?
Speaker 8 (19:56):
Why are you being so evasive? Oh God, it's true,
isn't it.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
What gave it away?
Speaker 8 (20:06):
The Countess told me?
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Oh buck stubbing bitch?
Speaker 8 (20:11):
Why Gigi?
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Why really you're going to ask me why it is true?
Don't act like you wouldn't do the same thing the
two of us, Fernando, we're two sides of the same coin.
I just beat you to the punch.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
Okay, Gig, you don't have to do this, sorry, cuz.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
It's nothing personal.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
What what?
Speaker 8 (20:40):
What hold up?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Gigi pushed you out of an airplane yep.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
In her defense, at least she waited until we were
low enough and over water.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
That psychotic, that's Gigi.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Once I had landed in the water, the Countess took
it upout herself to call Interpol and have me arrested.
I spent years rotting in the zero prison. Nobody came
back from me, not even my dad. It was too
much of a risk for the Empire, Fernando.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
This is precisely why we have to finish this. This
isn't about the painting anymore. This is about avenging your honor.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
I never took you for the vengeful time.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
No, not revenge, justice for everything she's done to you.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Okay, listen the painting Drop office tomorrow at four pm.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
I don't see her way around unless unless what unless
we intercept GG somehow intercept her. That's impossible. Well, she'll
be off the radar until the drop off.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Ferando. Gig's playing the game, right, so we just need
to beat her at it. Okay, can you think of
anyone she might be in contact with, anywhere she might go,
even the smallest little details.
Speaker 8 (21:50):
Oh wait, what, well, what time is it?
Speaker 3 (21:54):
It's just after ten am the midday, Fitz, I'm not
following every weekday.
Speaker 8 (21:59):
At t on the dot, Gigi goes to the Russian
spawn baths on the Lower east Side.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
The Russian baths, you mean, the one with the industrial
hoses that spin out freezing water and where they beat
you with eucalyptus branches.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
That place is masochistic, which is precisely why Jiji loves it,
and if she feels like she's stealed the deal, she
will definitely be there celebrating.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
So what we just walk in the spas drip down
naked and ask her for the painting what We Want You.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
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The setup Episode six and then Surah cappin.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Oh one, last night was perfect and well, you're so
so great at sex.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I agree, Fernando, last night was magical and I'm so
rested and refreshed even after all that incredible.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Set a cloud made of love and trust.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
And ring ring ring ring ring. Uh, Fernando, are you
saying what I think you're saying?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Ring ring ring?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Fernando?
Speaker 5 (00:44):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Are you proposing right now?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Oh god, my HP six and calls, Oh, she's totally
gonna build my insurance for the session.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
One.
Speaker 6 (01:01):
I'm concerned you have it returned?
Speaker 7 (01:02):
My calls? Is everything?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Woll What time is it?
Speaker 8 (01:08):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Just just before nine? Wait, we slept in for the.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
First time in a while. How about it make us
some breakfast? If I remember correctly, we've burned quite a
few calories last night.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Am I still dreaming? Did you just suffer to make
me breakfast after we? I mean, after what we did
last night?
Speaker 8 (01:26):
Oh? And tell me what exactly did we do last night? One? Well, we.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I guess we uh wait, do you not remember it?
Do we not have sex?
Speaker 7 (01:39):
What was a dream?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Too? We absolutely had sex one and it definitely merits
a homemade breakfast.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
You have egs right, Uh yeah, top shelf.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
Did something happen with an adult one?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Uh yeah, sorry, doc slept in. I think I think, well,
I think maybe if if it's okay, I don't I
don't need a session today or tomorrow or for a
few weeks. Things are, things are going really well. Actually
I think I got this. Oh wait, Nando, I'll show
you my technique for the perfect soft scramble.
Speaker 8 (02:31):
H very pretty good.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Huh so are we going to talk about it?
Speaker 8 (02:38):
This is? This is really good talk talk about.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
What what happened at Mike's about Gigi. I think we
should start thinking about the next step.
Speaker 8 (02:46):
And I you know soft scramble was the right choice.
You are a hell of a chef.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Look, I can't imagine it's easy for you to.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Talk about usually more of an over easy man myself
with this, this is might be my new go to breakfast.
Speaker 8 (03:06):
Okay, all right, fine, what do you want to know?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
How long do you think Gigi's been tailing.
Speaker 8 (03:12):
Us, knowing gig since the moment we started?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
So then what if g has the painting, then we're
just done.
Speaker 8 (03:19):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
We just throw in the towel.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
You know it is gorgeous out. Why do we take
Indie to the park. You can grab a couple of coffee.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
That sounds incredible, really really incredible. But I feel like
you're not telling me something. Did something happen between you
and Gig? I hope you know you can tell me anything.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I know.
Speaker 8 (03:45):
I know I can loot.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
But right now, India needs a nice long walk and
we need to split a croissant from La de Rey and.
Speaker 8 (03:56):
Stroll around the fountain. And while we stroll, you can
maybe let.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Me in on why your cousin has helpent on taking
the business from you. Maybe I'm not taking no for
an answer.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I look at that couple of them. They're just sitting
there and might even talk thing there in love just silence.
Maybe silence silences love sometimes. Oh God, I don't even
know where to begin.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
How about the beginning?
Speaker 8 (04:36):
Right beginning?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I guess it all started in conning class when we
were kidding a kid.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
All right, gentlemen, we will begin today's instruction with an
oral pop quiz.
Speaker 9 (04:54):
Hey, g high escore, it's five bucks.
Speaker 7 (04:58):
You're a loser. Please name the official code associated with
a breach of identity when conducting and undercover extraction.
Speaker 9 (05:08):
Well, that's technically a trick question. There are two codes.
Cod perwinkle refers to a breach of your own identity,
while code Jasmine is used when your partner's identity has
been compromised.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
Correct, very good, Fernando.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
One, No, not for long?
Speaker 8 (05:26):
Gg.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
What is the official protocol for identifying a mark and
gaining their trust?
Speaker 9 (05:32):
Easy?
Speaker 10 (05:33):
That would be ICCAs Identify Contact charm secure correct one
one whatever.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
Good morning, miss master Ignacio. My apologies, did we have
a meeting schedule? No?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
No, no no, I've simply come to observe my son
in action.
Speaker 7 (05:54):
Yes, of course, you're welcome. Please come in, Please continue
the lesson. All right, Fernando, tell me which Conning empire
is banned entirely in Europe?
Speaker 8 (06:06):
And why?
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Right?
Speaker 9 (06:09):
I know this one? M Yeah, that would be the.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Silent Shadow Empire.
Speaker 9 (06:18):
They're one of the few Conning families whose identity has
been kept securely under wraps. They were a top empire
until they broke one of the Sacred seven Treaty laws,
banning them from the entire European continent.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Excellent, And which law did they break?
Speaker 8 (06:34):
Right?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
They?
Speaker 9 (06:36):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (06:38):
It was it was the most important law of all,
never under any circumstances betray another conning empire. What it
just seemed like you were struggling.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
Children, Please focus, interruption, but I'd like to speak with
my son for a moment.
Speaker 10 (06:57):
Ah, pokaz, I'm sure you'll do better next time.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Such a little mumble outside, no bir.
Speaker 8 (07:09):
My father demanded perfection.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
But Gigi was always in the way, and I wasn't
the only one who noticed. As we got older, the
other kids who ran in our circle avoided her like
the plague.
Speaker 8 (07:19):
Gigi was obsessed with the car.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Everything and everyone was simply a game. And then, after
hours of listening to the back and forth bullshit, I
did what I knew I had to do.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
I intercepted the mark.
Speaker 7 (07:35):
How freaking way, dude.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I refused to believe you did that in broad daylight,
no cover, no bread, no breath, Not to mention breaking observation,
only protocol.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
I did.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
I undercepted the mark and got the job done before
either of those level one nudies.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Could even realize when it happened.
Speaker 8 (07:56):
And your dad didn't kill you.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Out of me for three weeks, I know it, but
not beforehanding me a bottle of mccalling thirty.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Oh yeah, man, So uh, where's this solicit date of yours?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Jem It's Jen and she's amazing.
Speaker 8 (08:19):
It's not like other girls I talk to.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
She's smart, it's funny, she.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
Does g.
Speaker 11 (08:28):
Hey boys, Sorry, I'm late.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
I think my inf I got.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Lost in the meal.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Fernando, what the hell is your cousin doing her party?
You're not on the list.
Speaker 11 (08:42):
Oh you're right, I'm not on the list, but you'll
find that.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Little miss Jenny Cherry.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
What's wrong, honey?
Speaker 11 (08:53):
I thought you'd be so happy to finally meet person.
Speaker 8 (09:01):
We're leaving.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Get your psycho cousin off my poot, Fernando.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
Jill on it?
Speaker 11 (09:07):
Oh yeah, Jill, you wouldn't want to pop a blood
vessel all over daddy's yacht.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
I'm coming.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Oh oh god, what.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
The hell were you thinking? Chat Fishy my best friend?
Are you nuts?
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Always that that big of a deal.
Speaker 11 (09:27):
Nick's bruised ego will recover.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I can't do this anymore.
Speaker 7 (09:31):
You're ruining my life.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Oh, don't be so dramatic.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Don't you get it?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Nobody Noboddy wants you here.
Speaker 7 (09:38):
These are my friends, not yours.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
You think you're hot?
Speaker 7 (09:43):
Shit?
Speaker 11 (09:43):
Don't you that your daddy's little conning prodigy. Let me
guess you were telling Nick the interception story from last month.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
So what so I'm assuming.
Speaker 11 (09:55):
You conveniently left off the part where I was the
one who suggested we intercept the mar in the first place.
That's not it, Fernando, take me out of the equation
and your nothing.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
She had this way of always saying the perfect thing
to mess with my head.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
I was desperate to get her out of my life.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Honestly, I never understood why she had to live with
us when she had her own family. And then one
day I overheard my dad talking to her parents.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Gigi, what are you doing?
Speaker 6 (10:39):
I'm eavesdriving's the girl is temperamental, emotional, completely unstable.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Who are they talking about?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Balance?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
She thought of her class, you know, just last week
she writes number one Enricauds and intelligence.
Speaker 10 (10:57):
We really don't have time for.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
Your daughter we are talking about I don't care how
talented she is.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
She's a lionlf I.
Speaker 8 (11:11):
Your son.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
On the other hand, he shall promise he plays by
the rules, follows the code. He can be molded into
a useful tool for the empire.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Gig.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Wait, things were never the same after that. Now, I
was no longer just friendly competition. I was her enemy.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
Conning turned reckless dead man.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
She became obsessed with one upping me, desperate to win
my dad's favorite. Luckily, after graduation we were able to
part ways. I established myself as a lead con man
and I thought I was reaching my calling and then
the Zurich case came along.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Thank you for taking the time to meet with me.
I know you both are very busy, and probably, of.
Speaker 8 (12:24):
Course, Uncle, I'm not so busy. But what is this
all about.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
There's a job one that requires a cone of the
highest galliper.
Speaker 8 (12:32):
So what this is like? You want us to prove
which one of us has what it takes.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Oh, let's be real.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
That's no competition, shut up, bite me.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Oh come on, no, no, no, no, This case calls
for both of you to work together.
Speaker 8 (12:51):
What you're joking, red, I don't joke for no.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
No, but I can't work with him.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
He'll slow excuse I will slow you down.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
I'll go cry about it.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Yes, maybe I was wrong about the two of you
working together.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
No, I can do it. I can work with him.
Speaker 8 (13:13):
Yeah, we can take care of it.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Very well. This job will take you to Zurich. You
two must infiltrate a highly secretive and illegal society of
artifact collectors. Once you gain their trust, you must sneak
into their underground vault beneath the streets of Zurich, from
which you will retrieve the Golden Rose circlet. An ancient
(13:38):
Roman crown is for a high profile client, which means
a large reward if you are successful, but dire consequences.
Speaker 8 (13:50):
If you fail. I can do it.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Oh, we can do it, right, isn't that what I said.
I'm counting on you.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
Do not let me down.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Things started off surprisingly well. Gigi and I managed to
infiltrate the society by posing as a pair of wealthy
Russian siblings in the illegal artifact trade. Despite our rivalry,
we were a solid team. Gigi was especially skilled in
impersonation and deception. I was strongest at ricon and extraction. Honestly,
we probably would have had a lasting partnership that had
(14:27):
not been for what happened the night of the Society ball.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
Now, remember, you're only going to have five minutes to
get into the vault. Well I distract the Countess. Her
security will follow her to Helen back, so if I
can keep her away, from the private wing. You'll have
the clear, but the window will be small. Five minutes,
no more, no less.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Got it?
Speaker 8 (14:52):
I got it the first twenty times you told.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Me, Well, you tend to be late.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
I do not.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
You hesitate, you always hesitate.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Whatever, How are you so sure you can distract the
countess anyway?
Speaker 6 (15:05):
Donan though, Please look at me. I'm hot. That is
my distraction.
Speaker 8 (15:10):
Okay, if you say so, is your your piece on
loud and clear?
Speaker 11 (15:16):
Good?
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Now? M are you ready, dear brother da?
Speaker 8 (15:24):
Of course system.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
At first everything went according to plan. Gigi was annoyingly
good at distracting the Countess, which offered me the perfect
opportunity to sneak around your security and get into the basement. Okay,
I'm approaching the vault.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
Remember you only have five minutes. I know how many
guards at.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
The vault entrance one?
Speaker 8 (15:53):
Two, three?
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Easy enough, eliminate them, but make sure you keep one
some of my conscious for the retina scann.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
Not eliminating anyone. You promised me.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
No casualties, No unnecessary casualties.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
There are ways to do a threat without killing them.
Speaker 11 (16:11):
Boring.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
All right, my darling Countess is beckoning me for another dance.
See you on the other side cuts.
Speaker 10 (16:22):
You.
Speaker 8 (16:25):
Hey, excuse me, how are you doing to night fellas?
Is this the line for the excuse me? Is this
the line for the bathroom? I mean you lost friends?
Speaker 4 (16:38):
No bathroom here?
Speaker 8 (16:40):
Sorry? What you go upstairs?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
No guests allowed here.
Speaker 8 (16:45):
I'm a society member. For your information.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
No close, I'm afraid I'm going to have to get
the tidiest bit closer up.
Speaker 8 (17:05):
Easy enough and no casualties.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Apologies, friend, but I do need to borrow your eye
from that. No please, please, oh my god, no listen,
I'm not gonna take your eye.
Speaker 10 (17:18):
Just no, please, please.
Speaker 8 (17:20):
Don't think I'm sorry. Holy shit, gg I'm in do
you hear me?
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Got a bit distracted? I'm afraid?
Speaker 8 (17:40):
Shit, Countess a pleasure.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
I wish I could say the same. Unfortunately, I have
some bad news to share with you.
Speaker 8 (17:50):
And what might that be?
Speaker 5 (17:51):
If you take that circlet come tomorrow, your dear cousin
will betray you.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Don't be ridiculous. She might be cleanly insane, but we're family.
She wouldn't do that.
Speaker 8 (18:03):
She can't.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
It's against our code.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
If you're so sure, zen, go ahead take it.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
You expect me to believe you'll just let me waltz
out of here with the circuit. No fight, no alarm bells,
you have my word.
Speaker 8 (18:20):
I was torn.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Part of me wanted so badly to believe that, maybe,
just maybe my cousin wasn't the terrible person everyone thought
she was. So I made the decision to ignore the
Countess's warning and believe Gig. Once I took that circuit,
the Countess kept her word and let us walk out
of their unharmed.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
I didn't tell Gigi about what happened.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
In the bolt.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Once we got to the plane, a plane that was
meant to take us back home, I started to get
a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
I mean, look at this thing.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
I can't even count how many rubies it has.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
It's insane.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Yeah, what's wrong?
Speaker 8 (19:28):
What do you mean? What?
Speaker 3 (19:29):
What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (19:31):
I've known you my entire life. I know when something
is bothering you, you get all fidgety, no, sweaty.
Speaker 8 (19:38):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I'm fine, I'm just I'm ready to get home. Could
I could I see the circlet for a second?
Speaker 7 (19:45):
What for?
Speaker 8 (19:46):
Do I need a reason?
Speaker 6 (19:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (19:48):
You do? Okay, seriously hand it over.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
No, I don't like your tone.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
Come on, you give me the circlet.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Why are you being so insistent?
Speaker 8 (19:56):
Why are you being so evasive? Oh God, it's true,
isn't it.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
What gave it away?
Speaker 8 (20:06):
The Countess told me?
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Oh buck stubbing bitch?
Speaker 8 (20:11):
Why Gigi?
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Why really you're going to ask me why it is true?
Don't act like you wouldn't do the same thing the
two of us, Fernando, we're two sides of the same coin.
I just beat you to the punch.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
Okay, Gig, you don't have to do this, sorry, cuz.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
It's nothing personal.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
What what?
Speaker 8 (20:40):
What hold up?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Gigi pushed you out of an airplane yep.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
In her defense, at least she waited until we were
low enough and over water.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
That psychotic, that's Gigi.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Once I had landed in the water, the Countess took
it upout herself to call Interpol and have me arrested.
I spent years rotting in the zero prison. Nobody came
back from me, not even my dad. It was too
much of a risk for the Empire, Fernando.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
This is precisely why we have to finish this. This
isn't about the painting anymore. This is about avenging your honor.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
I never took you for the vengeful time.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
No, not revenge, justice for everything she's done to you.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Okay, listen the painting Drop office tomorrow at four pm.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
I don't see her way around unless unless what unless
we intercept GG somehow intercept her. That's impossible. Well, she'll
be off the radar until the drop off.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Ferando. Gig's playing the game, right, so we just need
to beat her at it. Okay, can you think of
anyone she might be in contact with, anywhere she might go,
even the smallest little details.
Speaker 8 (21:50):
Oh wait, what, well, what time is it?
Speaker 3 (21:54):
It's just after ten am the midday, Fitz, I'm not
following every weekday.
Speaker 8 (21:59):
At t on the dot, Gigi goes to the Russian
spawn baths on the Lower east Side.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
The Russian baths, you mean, the one with the industrial
hoses that spin out freezing water and where they beat
you with eucalyptus branches.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
That place is masochistic, which is precisely why Jiji loves it,
and if she feels like she's stealed the deal, she
will definitely be there celebrating.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
So what we just walk in the spas drip down
naked and ask her for the painting what We Want You.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
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