((TS/SCI/DG/X1//NOFORN)) [u][b]OPERATIONAL TIMELINE[/b][/u] - [HIDER=PROLOGUE][b]APRIL 3RD, 2019[/b] - THE TEAM CONVENES ON BLACKRIVER, WEST VIRGINIA AT THE BEHEST OF DELTA GREEN/CIA CASE OFFICER STEVEN FOSTER. THEY ARE GIVEN THE TASK OF CLEANING UP AFTER THE NATURAL DEATH OF CLYDE BAUGHMAN, IRS AGENT AND VETERAN DELTA GREEN OPERATIVE. THEY SCOUR HIS APARTMENT IN CHARLESTON AND IT IS DISCOVERED THEY ARE BEING WATCHED. NOTHING COMES OF THIS, THANKFULLY, AND THEY PROCEED TO BAUGHMAN'S CABIN IN BLACKRIVER. THEY SOON DISCOVER DOCUMENTS AND ARTIFACTS KEPT AT BAUGHMAN'S CABIN FROM PREVIOUS OPERATIONS AND TAKE IT AS EVIDENCED TO BE ARCHIVED OR DESTROYED. DURING THEIR SEARCH OF THE CABIN, THEY FIND CLYDE'S DARKEST SECRET. THROUGH MEANS MAN WAS NOT MEANT TO KNOW, HE HAD BROUGHT HIS WIFE BACK TO LIFE. UNBEKNOWNST TO CLYDE BAUGHMAN ALL THOSE YEARS AGO IS THAT IT WAS NOT MARLENE BAUGHMAN INSIDE THE BODY HE BREATHED NEW LIFE INTO. HE HAD LOCKED IT AWAY IN A SEPTIC TANK UNTIL IT AGAIN WAS DISCOVERED AS THE TEAM CANVASSED THE PROPERTY. DR. HEATHER LAINE WAS ATTACKED BY THE THING THAT WAS MARLENE WHEN RANGER LAURIE MATHIEU AND OFFICER SELENA GOMEZ OPENED MARLENE'S PRISON TO REVEAL HER ROTTED FORM. -AFTER TORCHING THE CABIN AND THE SHED IN WHICH MARLENE WAS KEPT, THE TEAM GETS BACK TO RUMINATE AND BROOD OVER THE UNNATURAL THINGS THEY'D SEEN. CIA PARAMILITARY INTELLIGENCE OFFICER JOSEPH DONNELLEY FILLS THE TEAM IN ON WHAT THEY REALLY HAVE BEEN RECRUITED FOR- TO PROTECT THE UNITED STATES AND THE WORLD AT LARGE FROM THE UNNATURAL. THEY NOW WORK AS AGENTS OF THE SHADOWY GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION 'THE PROGRAM.' WORKING GROUP UMBRA IS OFFICIALLY FORMED.[/HIDER] [HIDER=HOME SCENES, APRIL-JUNE][b]HOME SCENES, [b]APRIL-JUNE[/b][/b] THE VARIOUS MEMBERS OF GRU-UMBRA RETURN HOME TO DEAL WITH THEIR LIVES IN THE WAKE OF THEIR FIRST MISSION... -HEATHER LAINE RETURNS HOME TO REVISIT THE OLD CASE IN OLYMPIC NAT'L PARK ONLY TO DISCOVER THAT THE CASE FILES HAD BEEN SEIZED. SHE CALLS CIA OFFICER JOSEPH DONNELLEY AND HE CONFIRMS THAT ANOTHER WORKING GROUP HAS TAKEN OVER THE CASE FROM THE FBI AND IT HAS OFFICIALLY COME UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF 'THE PROGRAM.' -SENIOR SPECIAL AGENT THOMAS STEWART RETURNS HOME TO FIND HIS WIFE IS PREGNANT -SELENA GOMEZ MAKES AN EFFORT TO DEAL WITH WHAT SHE SAW IN WEST VIRGINIA, DECIDING TO VISIT A THERAPIST RECOMMENDED BY DR. LAINE, HER TEAMMATE. -DIA OFFICER JASON JIMENEZ RETURNS TO SERVICE WITH THE DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WHEN HE DISCOVERS HIS SUPERVISOR IS TRYING TO PIN THE DEATHS AND CAPTURE OF HIS OLD TEAMMATES, THE PURGE OF THE DIA'S HUMINT ASSETS, AND THE DEATHS OF THREE DELTA FORCE MEMBERS IN THE ENSUING FAILED RESCUE ATTEMPT ON HIM. HE IS SHOVED INTO A POSITION AT A DESK IN THE US EMBASSY IN JORDAN AND UNCOVERS SOME SECRETS BEHIND THE CONSPIRACY HE IS BEING SCAPEGOATED FOR... -CIA PMO JOSEPH DONNELLEY RETURNS TO SERVICE WITH THE CIA IN TURKEY. THEIR HUMINT ASSET HAS DISCOVERED THAT AN OLD ENEMY, VIKTOR OZAN HAS COME FROM ISIS'S BRANCH IN CHECHNYA TO TURKEY FOR REASONS YET UNKNOWN. IT IS DISCOVERED FROM THEIR ASSET THAT OZAN PLANNED A TRIP TO IRAQ TO OPERATE UNDERGROUND WITH HIS COUSIN- ANZOR BEKZHAEV, THE FORMER CHIEF OF ISIS'S MORAL POLICE IN MOSUL, WHO HAD ESCAPED IRAQI JUSTICE AFTER OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM DESTROYED ISIS IN MOSUL. JOSEPH'S CIA TEAM IS TRANSFERRED FROM THEIR STATION IN TURKEY TO WORK UNDER INIS, IRAQI'S INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, TO TRACK DOWN VIKTOR OZAN AND ANZOR BEKZHAEV TO UNCOVER WHAT ISIS HAS PLANNED. KASIM, THE IRAQI INTEL OFFICER THAT DONNELLEY'S TEAM IS WORKING WITH, TELLS THEM THAT ANZOR HAS BEEN TARGETING YEZIDI MUSLIMS IN BRUTAL MASSACRES, ESCAPING INTO THE NIGHT. DONNELLEY FORWARDS ALL THE INFORMATION HE JUST LEARNED TO A SCEPTICAL FOSTER, MUCH TO DONNELLEY'S FRUSTRATION. HIS HOPES OF TASKING THE PROGRAM WITH THIS INTELLIGENCE CASE ARE THROWN OUT THE WINDOW. THE SUNNI POLICE FORCE IN BAGHDAD DOES NOT CARE FOR THE YEZIDIS BECAUSE OF THEIR SECT'S BELIEFS, LEADING TO SLOW RESPONSE TO ANZOR'S CLEANSINGS. KASIM TAKES DONNELLEY AND HIS TEAM TO THE MOST RECENT VILLAGE TORN THROUGH BY ANZOR AND VIKTOR. THE MALES IN THE VILLAGE ARE ALL SKINNED COMPLETELY AND LEFT IN PILES AT THE EDGE OF THE VILLAGE. DONNELLEY AND HIS MEN WAIT PATIENTLY FOR THE AGENCY'S SIGINT AND INIS'S HUMINT TO LOCATE VIKTOR OZAN. THEY CAPTURE VIKTOR IN A WELL-PLANNED RAID OUTSIDE OF BAGHDAD AND QUICKLY TAKE HIM INTO CUSTODY. LATER THAT NIGHT, STEVEN FOSTER CALLS DONNELLEY BACK TO WEST VIRGINIA. A BODY HAS BEEN FOUND PERFECTLY SKINNED IN THE FORESTS OF BLACKRIVER COUNTY. WORKING GROUP UMBRA IS ACTIVATED AGAIN...[/HIDER] [HIDER=EPISODE ONE][b]EPISODE I THE SILENCE BEFORE THE SOUND...[/b] [b]JULY 2ND, 2019[/b] - DONNELLEY MAKES IT TO WEST VIRGINIA TO ACCOMPANY FOSTER AND TOUR THE CRIME SCENE. DOCTOR LAINE, ATTENDING A LECTURE AT THE NEARBY FBI CJIS FACILITY IN WEST VIRGINIA, IS FIRST TO ARRIVE WHEN DONNELLEY FORMALLY ACTIVATES WORKING GROUP UMBRA. LAINE AND DONNELLEY SECURE TRANSPORT FOR THE BODY TO THE OFFICE OF A LOCAL DOCTOR, ANNE LEVY, AN AGING COMMUNIST DISILLUSIONED WITH PROVIDING MEDICAL AID TO THE BLACKRIVER POPULACE WHO ARE MORE LIKELY TO PRAY TO GOD AND HAVE FAITH IN TELEVANGELISTS THAN VACCINES AND MEDICINE. -WITH THE HELP OF LAINE'S COLLEAGUE IN THE FBI, DR. ALEX BAKKER, THEY DISCOVER THE BODY IS A FEMALE, AGE 16-23. SHE HAS BEEN THOROUGHLY MUTILATED BUT THE AUTOPSY IS CUT SHORT AFTER THE DISCOVERY OF A SHARD OF WHAT FEELS LIKE OBSIDIAN EMBEDDED IN THE GIRL'S HEART, BUT INFINITELY MORE BLACK. LIKE A HOLE IN THE WORLD, IT STARES INTO THEM AND AWAKES MEMORIES OF BLACK SLABS IN THE MOUNTAINS OF PAKISTAN AND OLYMPIA PARK. -DONNELLEY HAS THE IDEA TO CROSS REFERENCE THE BLACKRIVER COUNTY SHERIFF'S CASE FILES WITH THIS RECENT CASE. THEY ARE DEFLECTED BY THE DEPUTY ON DUTY AT THE FRONT DESK AND TOLD THAT THE SHERIFF IS NOT IN, AND THEREFORE THE CASE FILES CAN NOT BE VIEWED. DONNELLEY AND LAINE ACCEPT DEFEAT AND MEET FOSTER AND DETECTIVE MARYANNE ROY OF THE STATE CID IN WHITETREE, BLACKRIVER COUNTY. THEY LEARN THAT BLACKRIVER HAS A HISTORY OF MISSING PERSONS CASES GONE COLD AND THAT DET. ROY SUSPECTS CORRUPTION IN THE SHERIFF DEPARTMENT IN BLACKRIVER. [b]JULY 3RD, 2019[/b] - THE NEXT DAY, SSA THOMAS STEWART PARACHUTES NEAR THE SAFEHOUSE SOMETIME IN THE EARLY MORNING. LATER, SENIOR AIRMAN GWEN K. WEISSMAN IS TRANSFERRED ONTO GRU-UMBRA. THE INVESTIGATION BEGINS IN EARNEST THAT MORNING, DR. ALEX BAKKER HAVING MOVED THE JANE DOE'S BODY TO THE CJIS FACILITY. TOM IS FILLED IN ON WHAT WAS DISCOVERED SO FAR AND THE TOXICOLOGY REPORTS THAT CONSCIOUS SEDATION DRUGS WERE FOUND IN HER SYSTEM. BUT NO ANALGESICS. SHE FELT EVERY BIT OF HER MURDER AT THE HANDS OF THIS UNKNOWN MONSTER. -THEIR NEXT ORDER OF BUSINESS IS VISITING THE FIRST RESPONDING OFFICER TO THE CRIME SCENE AND THE JANE DOE FOUND IN THE WOODS, RANGER FRANK WILKINS, AN OUT-OF-TOWNER TRANSFERRED IN MONTHS BEFORE. HE TELLS DR. LAINE OF WHAT HE SAW THAT DAY, RIPPLES IN THE AIR ON THE TRAIL HE WAS HIKING THAT LED HIM TO THE CRIME SCENE TUCKED AWAY JUST FAR ENOUGH TO BE PASSED BY, BUT JUST CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE FOUND WITH LITTLE EFFORT. HE ALSO TELLS LAINE OF THE OLD FOLKTALES SURROUNDING BLACKRIVER AND WHITETREE. THE NATIVE AMERICANS THAT LIVED IN WEST VIRGINIA AVOIDED THE FORESTED MOUNTAINS OF WHAT WOULD BECOME BLACKRIVER COUNTY, TALES OF THE RIVER TASTING BITTER AND THE AIR BEING WRONG. MINERS DURING THE CIVIL WAR TELL OF PEOPLE DISAPPEARING AT NIGHT, LEAVING ONLY THEIR CLOTHES IN THE PLACES THEY ONCE STOOD. EVEN IN THE UNDETERMINED SPAN OF TIME BETWEEN 2007 AND 2009, A MINER NAMED DAVID DULANE COLLAPSED A TUNNEL, KILLING EIGHTEEN COWORKERS. THE COUNTY SHERIFF PULLED HIM OUT OF THE MINES. DULANE WAS REPORTEDLY SCREAMING ABOUT DEVILS IN THE MINES AS HE WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY. DAVID DULANE IS NOW SERVING HIS SENTENCE IN BECKWITH PRISON, NEAR CHARLESTON. TWO MONTHS AGO, AN UNIDENTIFIED COUPLE WENT MISSING ON THEIR HIKING TRIP THAT TOOK THEM THROUGH THE SCENIC MOUNTAIN TRAILS OF BLACKRIVER. THE HUSBAND WAS FOUND IN AN OLD MINE, SHIVERING. RANGER WILKINS CUT OFF THE INTERVIEW BEFORE HE COULD TELL HOW OR IN WHAT CONDITION THE WIFE WAS FOUND. DONNELLEY TASKS RANGER MATHIEU, AND WEISSMAN WITH PATROLLING A SIX MILE AREA AROUND THE ORIGINAL SCENE OF THE JANE DOE IN SEARCH OF THE BLACKRIVER KILLER RETURNING TO THE SCENE. MEANWHILE DONNELLEY, LAINE, AND JUSTIN GO IN SEARCH OF DET. ROY TO REVIEW THE CASE FILES SURROUNDING DAVID DULANE AND HOPEFULLY A VISIT WITH THE MAN HIMSELF... -DONNELLEY, JUSTIN, LAINE, AND TOM DECIDE TO VISIT THE STATE POLICE STATION IN SOUTH CHARLESTON. THERE, THEY GET BRIEFED FURTHER ON JUST WHAT DAVID DULANE IS IN BECKWITH FOR, LENDING CREDENCE TO FRANK'S STORIES ABOUT THE MAN. VERA CORP PAID OFF THE MACONIES, THE OLD FAMILY THAT FOUNDED WHITETREE IN BLACKRIVER COUNTY BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR. THE MACONIES KEPT AN IRON GRIP ON WHITETREE AND BLACKRIVER, HAVING ALREADY FENDED OFF A RIVAL FAMILY DURING THE CIVIL WAR AND QUELLED RIOTS AT THEIR MINES IN THE 1960S. AT THE END OF THEIR MEETING, THEY LEARN THAT A MAN FROM UMBRA'S PAST WAS HERE BEFORE THEM. CLYDE BAUGHMAN'S CONNECTION TO BLACKRIVER AND THE KNOWLEDGE HE USED TO REANIMATE THE BODY OF HIS WIFE ONLY GIVES THEM MORE QUESTIONS. THEY HEAD TO THE LIBRARY TO SEARCH FOR THE HISTORY OF BLACKRIVER... -THEY RETURN TO THE SAFEHOUSE WITH THEIR SPOILS- OLD CASE FILES ON BAUGHMAN'S ACTIVITY IN BLACKRIVER, BOOKS AND A PROJECTOR FROM THE LIBRARY. THE GROUP DECIDES IT IS TIME TO FIND OUT WHAT EXACTLY IS ON THOSE REEL TO REEL TAPES IN BAUGHMAN'S OLD FOOTLOCKER. AFTER DINNER, THEY SIT DOWN FOR A MOVIE NIGHT, BUT THE HORRORS THEY FIND ON THOSE REELS LOOSENS THEIR GRIP ON REALITY WITH WHAT THEY SEE. A GATHERING. A RITUAL. A SACRIFICE. LOVED ONES ABOUT TO BE PUT TO THE DAGGER- MADE FROM SOMETHING BLACKER THAN BLACK, LIKE A HOLE IN THE WORLD- IMPOSSIBLE OCCURRENCES BUT JARRING ALL THE SAME... [b]JULY 4TH, 2019[/b] -THE GROUP AWAKENS FROM THEIR SLUMBER AND THEIR DAY STARTS ALL THE SAME. ANOTHER DAY ON THE CASE. UNTIL DONNELLEY REALIZES SOMETHING. RANGER MATHIEU AND SENIOR AIRMAN WEISSMAN HAVE NOT CHECKED IN LIKE THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO. DETERMINED TO NOT LET THEM BE LEFT BEHIND, AND VISIT VIOLENCE UPON THOSE WHO MAY HAVE DONE THEM HARM, THE GROUP SETS OUT FOR THE BLACKRIVER HILLS. THEY SPEND THE BETTER PART OF THEIR SUNLIGHT TRACKING RANGER MATHIEU AND SA WEISSMAN THROUGH THE WOODS BY THEIR BOOT PRINTS AND SHELL CASINGS... AND HUGE, INHUMAN TRACKS. FINALLY, DONNELLEY AND THE REST COME ACROSS WHAT THEY MOST FEAR. GWEN AND MATHIEU'S CORPSES, SKINNED. DONNELLEY, TOM, AND JUSTIN MARCH ON UNTIL THEY FIND A CABIN LEFT DESTITUTE IN THE WOODS. INSIDE, THEY FIND A STRANGER CLAIMING TO BE FROM ANOTHER WORKING GROUP, COMPLETELY WIPED OUT IN SOME ATTACK SAVE FOR THE MAN. DONNELLEY DECIDES TO CUT LOSSES AND TAKE THE MAN IN, HOPING TO LEARN WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED TO WEISSMAN AND LAURIE, AS WELL AS THE STRANGER'S WORKING GROUP. ON THEIR WAY BACK TO THE FORD EXPLORER THEY ARE CHASED BY THE HUGE, TERRIFYING BEAST, SOMEHOW NOT ABLE TO EVER CATCH A REAL SIGHTING OF IT DESPITE ITS APPARENT BREADTH. DONNELLEY SUSTAINS A WOUND TO HIS LEG AS HE ALMOST BECOMES ANOTHER CASUALTY AND THE STRANGER EARNS HIMSELF A CONCUSSION. THEY MAKE A DARING ESCAPE FROM THE HILLS BACK TO THE SAFEHOUSE TO FIND YET ANOTHER STRANGER ARRIVED THERE. SHE IS MET WITH GUN BARRELS AND PARANOIA BEFORE JASON JIMENEZ, RECENTLY RETURNED, BREAKS THE TENSION. THE GROUP RECUPERATES AND REGROUPS. TENSIONS RUN HIGH WHEN A CLASH OF PERSONALITIES ARISES BETWEEN MEMBERS OF THE GROUP, LEAVING A LASTING IMPRESSION... [b]JULY 5TH, 2019[/b] PARINAAZ BHATT ARRIVES TO CONSULT ON THE CASE AT THE BEHEST OF FOSTER. TENSIONS FROM LAST NIGHT REAR THEIR HEAD ONCE MORE AS THE GROUP GEARS UP TO BE ON THEIR WAY AND ACHIEVE THE DAY'S OBJECTIVES. PARI, AVA, AND DAVE ARE TASKED WITH MEETING DETECTIVE ROY AND MEET FORMER DETECTIVE JOE DAWANT FROM THE CENTER FOR THE MISSING CHILD. CMC, THE NON-PROFIT THAT FOCUSES ON OUTREACH TO TEACH LAW ENFORCEMENT STRATEGIES TO DEAL WITH MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN AND TEENS, AS WELL AS COLLUDING WITH SEVERAL LEA'S AT LOCAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL LEVEL TO SOLVE CASES RELATED TO KIDNAPPED AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN AND TEENS. JOE DAWANT OFFERS HIS HELP AND REVEALS THE IDENTITY OF UMBRA'S JANE DOE. MARIA VASQUEZ, MISSING FOR YEARS, KIDNAPPED FROM WASHINGTON AND SOMEHOW ENDING UP IN WEST VIRGINIA. HE POSITS THAT MEXICAN CARTELS ARE ACTIVE IN THE AREA AND SMUGGLING PEOPLE INTO AND OUT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR PROFIT AND SEX TRADE. MEANWHILE, LAINE, JASON, AND DONNELLEY ARE TASKED WITH EXTRACTING THEIR INFORMANT- NPS RANGER FRANK WILKINS. IT IS THERE THAT THEY COME IN CONTACT WITH A SHADOWY MAN IN A DODGE CHARGER, THREATENING THEM COYLY. THEY LAY LOW IN CHARLESTON BEFORE HEADING BACK TO THE SAFEHOUSE ONCE THE COAST IS CLEAR. THAT NIGHT, THEY FINALLY GET THE DETAILS ON THE MISSING HIKER AND HIS WIFE. MISSING HIKERS DANIEL AND KATHY MILLER WERE FOUND IN THE HILLS OF BLACKRIVER. DANIEL MILLER WAS FOUND ALIVE, SHIVERING IN THE SHADOWS OF ONE OF THE MINES WHILE HIS WIFE WAS FOUND NOT FAR AWAY- SKINNED. IT IS REVEALED THAT FOSTER'S INFORMANT IN THE BLACKRIVER NPS IS A MAN NAMED BILLY, KILLED AFTER MAKING THE PHONE CALL THAT SUMMONED FOSTER AND UMBRA TO WEST VIRGINIA AFTER THE JANE DOE WAS FOUND. THE CASE OF THE MISSING HIKERS WAS DELIBERATELY SUPPRESSED, AND BILLY'S ONLY OTHER WAY OF GETTING NEWS OUT OF BLACKRIVER WAS FRANK WILKINS, WHO IN TURN CAME UNDER THE WATCHFUL EYE OF THE SHADOWY MAN IN THE DODGE CHARGER. THAT SAME MAN SHOWS UP, INTENT ON MAKING GOOD ON HIS PROMISE. AVA IS SHOT IN THE CROSSFIRE AND PANIC ENSUES WITHIN THE SAFEHOUSE AS BULLETS FLY. A GUN BATTLE ENVELOPES THE SAFEHOUSE AND AFTER A SHORT FIREFIGHT UMBRA MANAGES TO REPEL THEIR ATTACKERS. IN THE AFTERMATH, THEY FIND A SURVIVOR AMONG THE BODIES OF THEIR ATTACKERS. OUT OF ONE PART NEED FOR INTELLIGENCE, AND ANOTHER PART VENGEANCE FOR THEIR BLOOD SPILLED, THEY BEAT INFORMATION OUT OF THE PRISONER. THERE ARE RUSSIANS(MOB OR SPIES?) IN THE HILLS, THE MAN THAT LED THE ATTACK ON THEIR SAFEHOUSE IS NAMED JAY, AND THERE ARE "IMPORTANT THINGS" GOING ON IN THE LONELY HILLS OF BLACKRIVER. [b]JULY 6TH, 2019[/b] THE SAFEHOUSE IS COMPROMISED. THEIR MISSION SEEMINGLY IN SHAMBLES IN BLACKRIVER. UMBRA BEDS DOWN IN CHARLESTON AT THE FAMILIAR GOLDSTAR MOTEL TO REST AND REGROUP. WHAT WILL THE NEXT DAYS HOLD FOR THEM? [b]JULY 7TH, 2019[/b] LAINE, DONNELLEY, AND PARI ARRIVE AT BECKLEY CORRECTIONAL FACILITY TO SOEAK TO DULANE. DONNELLEY SECURES A TRANSFER OF CUSTODY FROM BECKLEY TO UMBRA, OR “THE UNITED STATES MARSHAL SERVICE.” DULANE MADE A PROMISE. A PROMISE TO THE SLEEPER. DONNELLEY WANTS DULANE ALL TO UMBRA SO THEY CAN FIND OUT WHAT IT WAS. DEATH WAKES THE SLEEPER... AFTERWARDS, THEY MEET WITH RETIRED DETECTIVE JOE DAWANT. JOE REVEALS SOME VALUABLE THINGS ABOUT HIMSELF. HE HAS SUSPICIONS THAT UMBRA IS NOT AN FBI TASK FORCE LIKE THEY WOULD HAVE EVERYONE ELSE BELIEVE. DAWANT KNOWS WHO THE LEADER OF THE RUSSIANS IN THE HILLS ARE. AND HE KNOWS WHERE GREGORY CARLISLE, A MODELING AGENT AND SEX TRAFFICKER FOR THE SINALOA LIVES. IF ANYONE WOULD HAVE COME INTO CONTACT WITH THE LAST PERSON TO HAVE SEEN MARIA VASQUEZ, IT WOULD BE CARLISLE OR SOMEONE CARLISLE KNOWS. AND DAWANT WANTS TO MAKE A DEAL... [b]JULY 10TH-11TH, 2019[/b] COMING BACK FROM THE LONG DRIVE FROM ARKANSAS TO NEW YORK, DONNELLEY REUNITES WITH KILL TEAM THUNDER FOR THE PLANNED RAID ON GREGORY CARLISLE’S RESIDENCE, DONNING HIS OLD CALLSIGN OF ‘TEX’. INTEL PROVIDED BY DAWANT AND THE PROGRAM PLACES CARLISLE IN YORKTOWN, A HIGH CLASS NEIGHBORHOOD IN NEW YORK. DURING THE RAID, TEX AND GHOST CATCH WHIFFS OF THE SAME OZONE SMELL AND MAKE A HASTY, SLOPPY RETREAT TO THE SOUNDS OF HELLISH HOWLS AND DEATH GROANS. A HOUSE FULL OF GUARDS AND TWO NYPD OFFICERS KIA. BUT CARLISLE IS IN THEIR HANDS. ABOARD THE MARCH TECHNOLOGIES CARGO SHIP SS EXCELSIOR, THUNDER BEGINS THEIR INTERROGATION WHILE A STRANGER LOOMS OVER THEIR SHOULDERS. A GRAY SUITED MAN WHO DOES NOT SPEAK MUCH. CARLISLE REVEALS TO THEM ALL THAT HE TURNED ON THE SINALOA FOR A DEAL WITH THE RUSSIANS. THE RUSSIANS SENT WHATEVER MONSTER THEY HAD IN NEW YORK TO SILENCE CARLISLE BEFORE THUNDER COULD GET TO HIM. BUT HOW? A MOLE, A SPY, EITHER WAY THE MONSTER WILL NOT STOP UNTIL IT GETS CARLISLE. THE GRAY MAN HAS A PLAN TO TRAP IT. THUNDER TENTATIVELY AGREES. WITH A HELLISH, EERIE RITUAL, THEY MANAGE TO WARD THE HORRIFYING MONSTER AWAY. FOR NOW. INSTEAD OF RISKING HIS TEAM, TEX KILLS CARLISLE... END EPISODE I... [/HIDER] [Hider=SOUND BEFORE THE SILENCE] [/Hider] ((TS/SCI/DG/X1//NOFORN))