MISTAKE 128

Chapter 128: The agency makes its move

For the next hour, Rico and Mia worked in tandem, trying every trick in their considerable arsenal to bypass the box's security. The tension in the vault was thick; every failed attempt pushed up the stress.

"Guys," Leo's voice came through their earpieces, "we've got movement. A car just pulled into the parking lot."

"Shit," Jack hissed. "How many?"

"Just one person. Looks like a cleaner."

Jack ran a hand through his hair. "Okay, we've still got time. Rico, Mia, where are we at?"

Mia looked up, frustration evident on her face. "We've bypassed the biometrics, but this voice recognition is killing us. It's like nothing I've ever seen before." "Wait a second," Rico said, his eyes lighting up." "What if we don't need to bypass it? What if

we could trick it instead?"

"What do you mean?" Jack asked.

Rico grinned. "Mia, pull up that voice modulation program you used on the Stephenson job. If we can get a sample of the right voice, we might be able to synthesize it."

Mia's eyes widened. "That... that might actually work. But we'd need to know whose voice it's looking for."

Jack thought for a moment, then pulled out his phone. He dialed a number, speaking quietly

Chapter 128. The agency makes its thave

when it connected. "Sir, we're at the box, but we're stuck on voice recognition. Any ideas. whose voice

it might be keyed to?"

He listened for a moment, then his face paled. "Are you sure? Alright, we'll try it."

turned to the team. "It's keyed

a moment of

whispered. "As in,

one. Can you do

speeches of his in my database, but nothing from his wife. Give me a

voice came through again. "Guys, the cleaner's inside the building. You've got maybe ten minutes before they reach the vault area." "Hurry, Mia," Jack

exclaimed. She held up her tablet to the voice recognition panel. A slightly robotic but recognizable version of Anya's voice emanated from the device. "What do you mean? Password: Dad," the first sentence was pulled from the government archives of a cruise ship party. The

heartstopping moment, nothing happened. Then, with a soft click, the safe

swung open.

it!"

Jack said, reaching into the box. "Now let's see what

hand groped inside the box, feeling around. His brow furrowed. "What the

it?" Mia

his hand out, empty. "It's... There's nothing here. The box

fell over

that security? There's got to be

shook his head. "Nothing. Not

Leo's voice cut in urgently. "The cleaner's almost at the vault. You need to get

"Alright, we're

made their way back to their entry point. As they slipped out into the night, they could hear the faint sound of a vacuum starting up inside. Once they were

he said when the call connected, "we got into the box, but... it was empty. There was nothing there." He listened for a moment, his face

plans. We're not going back to

questions than

from the curb, disappearing into the darkness. Behind them, the bank

how easy this was-no ordinary bank. This

streets, each member of the team was lost in thought, wondering what

have time to process what happened when a dark van slammed into their vehicle, flipping them several times and sending

withdrew and a row truck replaced it, and the entire crew was

their day, unaware of the drama that had unfolded in the

for weeks, leaving agents and analysts alike on edge. Today, those rumors would

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