Vanishing Point - Wake of the Plague - Episode 6 - The Kidnappers

Back to Main Page:Getting out of the casino, they were pursued by thugs, but Andrew led them into the Underground where they escaped behind sliding doors.
They need a car to get to Oxford, so hit up one of Andrew’s mates Phillip who runs a car shop, that may deal in stolen merchandise. Andrew insinuates with the ring that he’s in favour with Tall Dave which Phil is impressed by. However he only has an old mini metro in stock, anything else is going to take hours to arrange. So he lets him have it for a favour.
The team drove back into London to the pub (The Black Horse) where they left the Vanity. Fortunately the owner had kept it out the back this whole time.
Collecting it, they went up to Oxford, managing to avoid the worst of the traffic.
Dame Professor Sarah Gilbert was one of their targets. She was based out of the Old road Campus in Oxford. A glass-fronted building with a swipe card entry system housed the department of Vaccinology.
Firez approached the reception and asked to speak to one of his colleagues from the Literature department that he actually knew from a conference a while ago in Kiev.After taking a short tour, he excused himself and said that he’d be able to let himself out. The professor bought it and they were able to head up to the 3rd floor to find the professor.
She was just coming back and they claimed to be journalism students wanting to ask her about the Astrazeneca vaccine.
She tried to fob them off onto one of her graduate students, but they pulled out the Vanity and set it up, transporting all of them to the Vanishing Point.
They arrived as they originally had, at the Navigator’s guild in the immigration department.
Sarah was understandably shell shocked and barely responsive. But the other explained that they were associated with Dr Watts and that they wanted to send a message to the hospital.
They were kept in the waiting area for several hours, and the recently stolen weapons were seized.
The paper revealed that several revolutionaries were executed for the murder of a police officer, apparently the government felt that it was more important to send a message than to catch the correct people.Finally a police officer arrived, Detective Lizabetta Leroux, a smiling Sanguine and her assistant, Probationary Constable John Smith, none other than Andrew’s former contact in the mob. He explained that when the mob “disappeared” him, they just sent him to the Vanishing Point. Easier to cover up a police officers disappearance if they don’t have to worry about a body being found.
Detective Leroux explained that she knew they killed the police officer. She feeds specifically on the fears of the guilty and can actually taste the difference. So now she employs bad people to catch worse ones. With this, she wants to give the group a chance to get revenge on Tall Dave (Or she implies, she will have them arrested), who she revealed is actually an Insider, a parasitic spider that wears bodies like suits. The insider themselves is Zheng Yi Sao, a higher up in the Gossamer Corporation. With the signet ring they stole and an eyepatch, they can infiltrate the Gossamer corporation. Inside if they can find documentation that proves that the Gossamer Corporation engaged in the practice of illegally abducting vast numbers of people using illegal vanities, then it can be sent to the New London Gazette which would embarrass the government into action.
She does allow them 24 hours to escort Dame Professor Sarah Gilbert to the Hospital which requested her abduction. Whilst there, they hand back the speaking rock, which seems to be John Smith's lost voice. Thankfully with surgery, she believe that they can be re-attached and this can provide at least a partial respite from the Fading disease that he suffered from. 
Probationary Constable Smith tells them about a squat which was recently cleaned out where they can base themselves until they get something more permanent.
With that, they are free to plot their infiltration of the Gossamer Corporation headquarters.
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