GH2016.11 Nervous Night

Along the docks a couple strolls through a frosty night.

Georgie: You promised me the tropics.
Jerry: It's your hometown; consider my old bones,Luv. Once we finish this
up we'll have our holiday. It will be Margaritas and cocoa butter on the
beach. So Frisco is your father, trying to avoid a little nepotism there
were you?
Georgie: Thought it was better to know you first. A lot of the oldtimers
know me from summer vacations though.
Jerry: I'd heard a few stories but you know agents- a close mouthed bunch
when it comes to family.

The two pause to warm their hands at a barrel fire with some displaced
persons who are passing a bottle carefully wrapped. As they continue
walking Jerry gets to business.

Jerry: It's an ELQ tanker that is leaving for the Middle East. It is the
only one that fits the schedule.
Georgie: I know many of the Quartermaines. My cousin's mother just married
into that family. They skate on thin ice at times but normally legal.
Jerry: Well someone crossed the line this time. We need to verify the cargo
and then plant the locator and our part is done. WSB will track them and
another team will pick up on the other side.
Georgie: Not horribly smart I'd think to haul explosives in a tanker.
Jerry : Cost Efficient to have cargoes going both ways. Here we are.
Security changes shifts in 10 minutes and meets for briefing in the control
room. walk through in about 30 minutes after that so lets go.

The couple moves silently up the gangplank and move towards the bowels of
the ship. As they identify the cargo area they discover the cache they are
looking for.

Georgie: (grabbing her Camera) Bingo! (quickly she fires film of the weapons
cases noting markings and moving off to examine the precursor materials that
will be combined to form explosives) If the labels are to be trusted at
least a few of these are regulated substances.
Jerry: Get the labels too. Maybe we'll get stuck tracking the purchases.
(he moves off to another room) Georgie here is the refrigerator unit and
the lab supplies. (Georgie follows him)
Georgie: Everything here for a lab set up including the containment suits.
(snapping pictures) I don't see any power hooked up so there are no
cultures here, Thank God.
Jerry: Easier to get on the other side of the water. (he speaks distractedly
as he begins to wire the locator that will be recognized by the the
satellite) I think we have pushed our luck. Lets get going.
Georgie: No argument. (Reversing their path they quickly move topside and
are stepping off the gangplank when the alarm is raised by a security guard)
Lets go! ( the two move off quickly moving into the shadows of the nearby
warehouses)
Jerry: Think they want to chat with us; they're following. Keep going.
(Georgie keeps moving checking doors as she goes when she hears the popping
noise of a silenced weapon and Jerry's grunt when he is hit) Damn it! (Just
then Georgie finds and unlocked door and the two duck in, locking the door
behind them.)
Georgie: How bad are you hit?
Jerry: My arm feels as if it is on fire. (he says quietly the sentence drawn
out of him. Both fall silent as they hear the door knob being rattled and
footsteps moving off.)
Georgie: Here's hoping they don't find any blood trails until morning
'cause we will be long gone. (Georgie helps him to an area where the light
of a street lamp drizzles through a dirty window; she examines his arm.)
Wish I could tell you it was just a burn but it looks as if it might have
done at least some muscle damage. We need to get you to GH.
Jerry: That would blow both of our covers. (He winces as Georgie binds his
arm with her shirt) You are a fine looking woman in those thermals, Luv.
Georgie: Quit flirting. You are just lucky to have gotten shot with a nurse
nearby, although a boy scout could have done just as much. Stay here. I am
going to look for another exit. (Georgie moves off rapidly following the
walls of the cavernous building. Returning what seems hours later to the
injured man.) Lets go. I found a way out. (Helping Jerry to his feet she
notes that he is not too steady) Don't flake on me!
Jerry: Did I forget to tell you what a baby I am about pain?
Georgie (joking) All men are babies. (She runs her arm around his waist
offering support) You are not going to make it back to the apartment. I'm
going to go for the car but you have to promise not to pass out while I am
gone. If you do, I swear I'll tell everyone you fainted.
Jerry: No call to be nasty; I'll be here. (Jerry sags against the wall,
sliding down until he is seated on the floor)
Georgie: I'll hurry. (hesitating at the door)
Jerry: Just go. Sooner gone, sooner back Georgie. (She opens the door,
looking back once then moving off quickly)

About forty minutes later there is a scratch of a lock being picked.

Georgie: (entering the building to a drawn weapon) Just me and I brought
help, so put that away. This is Barry (referring to a homeless man) I
promised him your car if he helped out.
Jerry : Awful free with my car.
Georgie: you hate that clunker; you bitched about it all the way from Idaho,
so hush. (Barry and Georgie lift Jerry's near dead weight and put him in the
car) I'll drive to GH. Barry will drop me off about a block from the
hospital. When you get there ask for Tom Hardy jr.; he works the ER mostly
but he is great with muscles. Do you want me to call anyone?
Jerry: Call the office. Tell them what happened; make sure they get the
film and the notes. Keep the apartment until the tanker leaves. Try to get
pictures of the crew or anyone that comes calling. As soon as the tanker
leaves get back to work.
Georgie: I'll see you in a few days then.
Jerry: (voice growing fainter) You're a good girl; I'd work with you again.
Georgie: Work, Hell. You promised me a margarita and I'll collect.

Within a block of GH, Georgie pulls over to the side of the road getting out
as Barry slides over.

Georgie: Just drive up to the ER and toot the horn, after they get him
unloaded drive off and the car is yours.
Barry: No problem. Heater works and everything.
Georgie: You don't know me, Barry.
Barry: (playing along) Never saw you before in my life.
Georgie: (giving his hand a squeeze) Thanks. (Georgie crosses the road to a
bus stop just in time to catch it. Her eyes follow the car as it pulls into
the ER entrance)

Half an hour later at the phone booth outside of Jerry's Apartment.

Georgie: Daddy, It didn't go smoothly... Jerry is in the hospital....
Whoever was guarding the boat didn't like our snooping... the locator was
placed...I need someone to pick up the film and the notes...No, I don't
think the apartment is compromised, I can still get pictures from
here...Garcia will probably hassle Jerry about the gunshot...he'll be okay
but he'll need some physical therapy if there is muscle damage...I'll be
careful... I love you too, Daddy.