Triple Theft
Triple Theft was a virtual representation of one of Jacob Frye's genetic memories, relived by a Helix initiate through the Helix Navigator.
Description
Jacob helped Maxwell Roth kidnap three of Crawford Starrick's important associates.
Dialogue
Jacob entered the Alhambra Music Hall, where Roth was admiring his pet crow.
- Roth: Jacob! He is beautiful, isn't he? I've planned the perfect second outing for us!
- Jacob: Have you?
- Roth: There's borrowing to be done. Three of Starrick's henchmen are about to disappear.
- Jacob: Oh, you sly devil.
- Roth: Oh! And I'm coming along this time. There is no sense in giving you all the glory. Off to my carriage we go! Lewis!
Jacob and Roth left the Alhambra.
- Roth: Jacob! Our carriage awaits!
You know how it is. You drive.
Let us away.
Jacob took the reins to Roth's carriage.
- Roth: These cowardly fools under Starrick have built their own prisons. It's a dreadful waste.
- Jacob: They could be building gangs instead?
- Roth: No, no! Why build, when you can ebb and flow like the sea? I would not deign to pin them down.
- Jacob: Oh, you wouldn't, would you? What about your bird?
- Roth: It's not building anything. It just is, my dear.
They approached the National Gallery.
- Roth: I dare say I shall never tire of the National Gallery.
- Jacob: Why does Starrick interest himself with art?
- Roth: He's hired a fiendishly talented woman, one Hattie Cadwallader, to procure works for him. She has excellent taste.
- Jacob: We're kidnapping her for the sin of being Starrick's collector?
- Roth: Oh my dear, no. We are kidnapping her, not because she loves art, but because she finances Starrick's enterprises by selling it. One must never mix art and money.
- Jacob: Wait for me with the carriage. I'll pay her a visit.
- Roth: Splendid. Be careful, my dear. When a deal falls through, Miss Cadwallader tends to poison future sales.
Jacob dismounted the carriage.
- Jacob: Bring your carriage around and wait for the cargo. I shan't be very long.
He searched the National Gallery for clues about Cadwallader's location.
- Jacob: Someone around here must know Miss Hattie Cadwallader...
Jacob approached a girl.
- Jacob: I'm looking for Miss Hattie Cadwallader.
- Girl: Ain't seen her... I knows what she's been up to, though.
- Jacob: And what's that?
- Girl: Prigging (stealing) art, sir. She pinched a statue not far from here.
- Jacob: The statue must be around here somewhere.
Now where is that statue...
Jacob found a pedestal missing its statue and approached a boy.
- Jacob: Hey, smallie! Know anything about what happened here?
- Boy: I saw who pinched it, sir.
- Jacob: Miss Cadwallader?
- Boy: She hides down the sewers, sir.
- Jacob: Of course it's sewers.
Why the bloody sewers?
Jacob infiltrated the sewers where Cadwallader had hidden the statue and grabbed her from behind.
- Cadwallader: Tell Mr. Starrick his next delivery is on its way. And tell him too that I'm growing tired of these working conditions.
- Jacob: Wasn't Starrick who sent me.
- Cadwallader: Then who?
- Jacob: Maxwell Roth sends his regards.
- Cadwallader: Oi! Leave off, or you'll be sorry!
Take your hands off me, sir, or you'll be sorry!
What do you want? - Jacob: Shh...
Hush, madam.
We're fast friends now, aren't we?
Not a peep from you.
Don't call for help.
Jacob brought Cadwallader to the carriage.
- Roth: Why, Miss Cadwallader! What a pleasant surprise!
- Cadwallader: You'll be hearing from Mr. Starrick, Roth!
- Roth: Ha! I look forward to it!
Jacob shoved Cadwallader inside the carriage and took the reins.
- Jacob: Why the Alhambra?
- Roth: Every good criminal needs a place to invest his ill-gotten gains. And what's better than distracting the world with a little light entertainment while you do so?
- Jacob: Oh, come now. You can't tell me you don't enjoy the triumph of a well-received play? The plaudits and praise? The reviews?
- Roth: I enjoy being entertained, Jacob! If one the productions pleases me, I am over the moon. The theatre is in my blood. As you so astutely discerned, theatricality is... something of a Roth specialty.
Jacob and Roth approached St James' Park.
- Roth: Ah, the park. The dwelling place of Starrick's head of security, one Benjamin Raffles. Those who cross him tend to disappear without warning.
- Jacob: Sounds like we'll be fast friends.
- Roth: Be careful. His guards are never far away.
Jacob dismounted the carriage and infiltrated the park, where he grabbed Raffles from behind.
- Raffles: What the meaning o' this?! Did Roth send you? The villain!
- Jacob: You have your villains mixed up, Mr. Raffles. The man you work for is the real villain here.
- Raffles: Let. Me. Go!
Guards! - Jacob: Keep your voice down.
Quiet, Mr. Raffles.
Hush now.
Jacob brought Raffles to the carriage.
- Roth: My most fragrant Raffles! How very good to see you again!
- Raffles: Go to hell, Roth!
- Roth: It's into the back with you, then.
Jacob shoved Raffles inside the carriage and took the reins.
- Jacob: Who is this Lewis that works for you?
- Roth: Ha! A bit of an odd fish, isn't he? Came to me a few years past.
- Jacob: He's very solemn.
- Roth: But always so polite! And he has many other talents.
- Jacob: Who am I looking for?
- Roth: Chester Swinebourne. A copper by day and snitch by night. Remove him from the pack and you cut Starrick's ties to the police force.
- Jacob: Must be good at what he does to keep the charade going for so long.
- Roth: He is indeed, dear boy.
Jacob and Roth reached Scotland Yard, where the latter dismounted the carriage.
- Jacob: All these bobbies give me gooseflesh.
- Roth: Welcome to Scotland Yard.
Jacob infiltrated Scotland Yard and grabbed Swinebourne from behind.
- Swinebourne: Huh?! What?!
- Jacob: Now, now, Swinebourne. Let's not make a scene.
- Swinebourne: You're not going to get away with this!
- Jacob: Oh, but I am.
- Swinebourne: Where are you taking me?
- Jacob: A friend would like to say a quick how d'ye do.
- Swinebourne: Cease and desist!
- Jacob: Hush!
Quiet, please.
Jacob brought Swinebourne to the carriage.
- Roth: Chester!
- Swinebourne: Roth? It's been a while.
- Roth: You've really let yourself go. Shame. Now, it's into the back with you!
Jacob shoved Swinebourne into the carriage and drove it to a delivery point at the River Thames. There, Starrick's henchmen were brought aboard a steamboat.
- Roth: Excellent work. Do come find me at the Alhambra. I have more amusements planned for us!
Roth boarded the boat and sailed away.
Outcome
Jacob and Roth kidnapped Starrick's henchmen, weakening the Templars' hold on London.
Gallery
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Roth watches his pet, a baby crow -
Jacob asks for Hattie Cadwallader's whereabouts -
Jacob finds a pedestal missing its statue -
Jacob learns that Hattie hides in the sewers -
Jacob enters the sewers -
Starrick's henchmen boarding a boat -
Roth sails away
