The Only Mistake PT 2

CH 3

If your like me you you’ve tried everything,

 You’re probably thinking to yourself.

And what about mistakes? How many did I really make during the course of this case? I lost track when I first made myself known to The Outsiders.

My contact at the D.E.A. was Chico Mendoza. He approached me after Helena’s funeral. He said that there was something he could help me with provided I help him first. I really didn’t think anything of it at first. But then the case against Havoc fell apart. And I started to think about it harder. Time went by, and I felt deader inside the more the seconds ticked by and I needed to do something. So I gave Chico a call. And he informed me that I was gonna have to go out of the box on the case. He was very adamant that I understand that I was on my own and that I could loose my job with the F.B.I. I just nodded my head. Protocol is just a word. So more time went by and I suppose he decided that maybe the job would get done better if everything was on the up and up. I saw the header for the assignment and I figured I could have the inside track on being the special agent in charge. Then your speech shot me down…

Surveillance was all that you could offer. So I took it. I didn’t believe at the time that all aspects of the case where open. The thing that threw me was who I was watching not Havoc, you made it clear I was to go no where near him. Instead it was to follow around a woman in a rival organization. Instead of thinking it thru seeing what was really going on, I yelled at Mills in the parking lot venting all of my frustration of not understanding why I had to follow around someone who had nothing to do with it. Mills being the senior agent he is calmly told me that maybe this woman could be our ticket in….. Maybe.

Task force was in place. We all had our assignments operation Mountain Bike was underway. Chico and the D.E.A would handle The Outsiders and the F.B.I. would handle back up and surveillance. The norm was Mills and I tailing Shane and getting all we could from satellite recon. You know those dishes we would point at the windows and get the frequencies off the glass. Cool stuff.