Episode 7

## In the hiding

Sidney, Richard, Vinkey, Oinks and John Heston have been hiding in John's old apartment in New York for some time now. It is April of 2018 and there's still some snow left on the street. While John has been plotting yet another revenge on Frank Veliano, pigs stay positive and think of simpler time when they used to work in Brooklyn at a shopping mart.

All of a sudden, John gets a phone call from an unknown caller, who says to meet him in Central Park. They all head to Central Park, where Richard spots a woman sitting on a bench. They approach her and she says them to sit down. Woman introduces herself as a private detective Agathe Russo, sister of the late NYPD Comissioner Sam Russo. She tells them of the situation and knows what happened that day in the precinct, when Veliano's hired hitman, Dimitri Abramovici attacked them. She says that she can help them with this Veliano problem they have. She hands them files that she's been collecting all this time about Frank and tells them about his father's old manor in Brooklyn, which is now inhabitet by one of Frank's capos. James Lory is supposed to arrive in New York tomorrow to meet this capo and do some other business. They could eavesdrop the meet and find out more about Frank.

Agathe believes that the reason why Lory is coming to meet the capo is because of the inactive lawsuits that Frank has, they could become active, due to recent murders and ties with the victims and Veliano. She says that if they gather enough information, she could go to the courts and have Veliano to battle with these lawsuits.

At first John is hesitant to accept but pigs accept it in his place. She gives them her contact and address and then leaves.

## Eavesdropping Lory

Back at the apartment John scolds pigs for making decisions on their own, they fight back by saying that he's been doing that since the first day they met. John argues that he can look after himself, while pigs always need to be rescued. They all continue arguing until Oinks interrupts them and tells them to listen to the radio. It says that there have been found more dead bodies and one of the security cameras near a victim caught a glimpse of a blond-haired man walking out of the building shortly after the murder happened. John understands that it's Abramovici and they all stop their arguing, overcome their differences and get ready for tomorrow.

The next day they stalk capo's manor and wait until Lory arrives. Earlier, John put a recordable tape in the office, so they can listen to the conversation. Once the car arrives, Lory gets out of it along with Dimitri Abramovici, they meet the capo and Lory talks with him about issues that Frank has with the lawsuits, Lory wants the capo to keep a low profile for some time and also mentions a special operation that they have coming up very soon. The capo declines this order and tells Lory that he will continue his operation as it is.

After some arguing, Lory leaves the building and heads to a hotel in Manhattan. Pigs and John follow him and see him enter the hotel, afterwards, they hear the capo leaving his manor in the recordable tape and decide to head back to the house to tail him. After some time of tailing him, the 5 heroes notice the capo getting kidnapped, they immediately follow the kidnapper's truck.

As they follow the truck, it arrives at an old warehouse in Bronx, there, the capo is seated in the middle and James Lory comes up to him, revealing that he gave the order to kidnap the capo.

John and pigs manage to get inside the warehouse through ventilations and attic-like room above. From there, they can eavesdrop Lory's interrogation. Lory tells the capo that his services are not needed anymore and he will be disposed of. As Lory starts beating him, Abramovici notices John and pigs from above, causing their cover to be blown. They all manage to escape, thus leaving capo with Lory to seal his fate.

## Escaping the thugs

The 5 heroes are chased by Veliano's thugs in cars. At one point, they are forced to stop and fight back, John manages to fatally wound all of them but one, who is shot in the leg by Sidney. They come up to him and ask about the operation that Lory mentioned earlier. After some pressuring, thug tells them that Veliano has put a Swedish town Laisvall on a lockdown and built a research base, they are planning to move most of their thugs and equipment to the base soon. That's all what thug knows and shortly after John finishes him off. All 5 of them manage to escape the scene before Abramovici arrives.

## Packing for Sweden

Next day John calls Agathe and tells her all the information they obtained. Agathe believes that there should be enough in Sweden to sue Veliano, John agrees on this and together with pigs, the 5 heroes decide to plan a trip to Laisvall.