Date Played: 17 June 2001
Game Date: Monday, 9 October 2000 (Columbus Day)
At the Columbus Day celebrations in the Mall, Elizabeth Beaumont is approached by a shabby looking man who says that he knows she is looking for information about Operation Starling. When she says she is, he asked whether she is an Owl or a Raven. She tries to avoid the question, he makes to walk away, turns and levels a pistol at her. She karate chops it from his hand and he runs into the crowd. She gives chase but after about twenty yards is stopped by a bullet to the shoulder from the companion the shabby looking man led her towards. The shabby looking man and his bodyguard disappear into the rapidly dispersing crowd.
Thomas Malachi, in the Mall on an extra security detail, sees the commotion and joins the local police in disarming and providing first aid to the injured Beaumont.
While Beaumont is giving a statement to the local police and discharging herself from hospital against doctor's orders, Malachi is making a deal with Detective Logan to view the security tapes from the Park. Using the tapes, Beaumont and Malachi spot the shooter and his companion and track the pair's movements to the Seventh Street Parking Station. The also get a good description of the gang wanna-bes who pick up the pistol Beaumont karate chopped away from the shabby looking man.
A call to Alisa St James gives them the information that Operation Starling was an Aegis mission in which the agents were betrayed to the Black Book by someone inside Aegis and killed. The dead agents once formed Alisa's D.C. cell, a role now filled by the characters.
At the Parking Station, attendant David Patten remembers the pair and finds their license plate details in the parking records. Running the plates reveals that it is a dummy license, a copy of an existing license plate. Likewise, checking the gang wanna-bes in the FBI database proves fruitless.
Game Date: Tuesday, 10 October 2000
On checking some local gang hang-outs, Malachi finds the gang wanna-bes playing with the recovered pistol and buys it from them for $100. Tracing the fingerprints on the pistol's magazine and running them through the finger print database, turns up that they belong to Randall Travelt, US Rangers, retired, and an Aegis operative.
On Meeting Alisa once more, she revels that Operation Starling has factionalised Aegis: one faction wants to root out the traitors (Owls), the other wants to reform the organization (Ravens). Travelt was involved in a planning capacity in Operation Starling and was suspected of disloyalty. Alisa says that this has now been confirmed. She asks Beaumont and Malachi how far they want to continue with this matter. They both answer "all the way".
She contacts them again later that night and tells them to meet her in a disused industrial estate. Alisa and Riggs wait by a car for the team. Another car, black and more expensive with just the back window rolled down, waits a couple of yards away. Riggs opens the trunk. Inside is Travelt, bound and gagged. Beaumont pulls her pistol, places the muzzle between Travelt's eyes and says "You asked whether I was an Owl or a Raven? I'm an Owl". She pulls the trigger. Riggs looks at her and says simply, "Cold".
The other car drives away. As it passes them, Malachi notices the license plate: NSA-1.
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