Thread: The Punisher: Marked For Death (Athene & East)

Frank Castle 2nd September, 2018 New York City, New York Exact Location Upscale Manhattan apartment 0931 AM EST Six men sat around a well lit ornate table, on the table there was the latest morning edition of the daily bugle showing the bust that had taken down a small fraction of the organized human trafficking ring that these men had worked hard to set up. The product were all girls, between the ages of 15-17, that had been taken in at various points, some were runaways, others were taken during family vacations. All were about to be shipped off and sold and yet somehow the cops had caught wind of the operation. The details of the bust kept names out of it, only mentioning that three were dead, and that a local cop had aided in the rescue of the women who were now under police custody and could be potentially reunited with their families. It was a happy ending. It was an insult. One of the men pulled out a ipad, and started going through footage taken from various locations around the peer. The cops said that there was a sniper on a roof, but the only one in the footage is the police girl. The location was chosen cause there were very few if any street cameras, so we don't have good angles, but we can hear three shots. So she killed our boys, and then blamed it on a ghost. another of the men sighed and took a bite out of the breakfast meals. They managed to get one good shot where her face was exposed to one of the street cameras. What is she? Probably fresh out of the academy by the look of how young she is. I doubt she has made detective yet. You want to approach her with an offer? see if we can put her on the payroll? Another dirty cop could help re-emberse lost costs No, I want her removed. Pulling an officers badge is pretty hefty in the price. Even if she went off the books the city would regard her as a hero for saving the girls. Another man said. Hero cop's don't loose their badges. Then remove her the old fashioned way, see if we can't get a name off the picture, or one of our good boys. Once we have that, put a hit on her. Nothing old school. We don't need to scream Maggia to the public. Everyone regarded the paper for a second, one of the first big bylines the now owner of the daily bugel ever broke was in taking down the Maggia crime family which played by a more authentic and older god father type code. Jameson had a target on his back since those days, but for some reason be it dumb luck or geniun skill the man had managed to evade every shot ever taken at him. We don't need the garish details, Just put someone on it, and make sure that her body isn't found. 2nd September, 2018 New York City, New York Exact Location A cafe outside of NYPD headquarters. 1140 AM EST Frank sat eating a sandwhich his eyes focused across the street at the constant hustle and bustle of the NYPD headquarters. This was basically a cop diner hall, so he hadn't come as frank the punisher. His coat and his more assorted stuff was back at his apartment, he was wearing a grey work out hoodie with the NYPD logo on it, and track pants. He basically looked like every other off duty cop in the place. Just another asshole on the force eating his lunch protecting and serving. He had come here cause it was the natural lunch rush, but he couldn't find his Asian cop from the night before. Some part of him wondered if she was on duty today. He was hoping that she would just walk into the place and order a sandwich so he could have a talk with her. There were two reasons he wanted to meet her, the first was that she had probably been working a case, which meant that her file was probably more up to date than his was on the work he was doing, but the second was a bad feeling. Every time he got involved with something it was always some weird case that ended up going back to someone high up. The district attorney had ordered the bust that had killed his family, the leader of the CIA had been the goon he had punched in the face when he had tried to lead his strike force, and even his old boss in the military had turned for a paycheck at some point. A good cop, one who took stupid risks and was at the lower end of the pay grade, that's hard to find in today's crazy world. Frank wanted to make sure that she stayed alive through this case, and who knew, maybe she could pass on some information to him as well.