Spy Bio

• Recover the NoC Reports at any cost
• Recover the code books (if possible)
• Arrest as many of the local organized crime groups as possible
• Get possession of the drug sample

You're currently a member of a special task force. After much squabbling between factions of the Department of Justice, your team was constructed from different organizations. Nominally under FBI control, it's led by a RICO agent. You are joined by representatives from the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. Since all these groups are concerned about different types and levels of crimes, you're having trouble pulling it together. The "trial period" runs for another four months.

Your team is in Dallas to track down a collection of reports by deep cover FBI agents. The reports and the code book necessary to decrypt them were recently stolen from the FBI. Reportedly, the items aren't together yet, so the reports are still safe. The recovery of both the reports and the book would be optimal; their destruction might be necessary if it's the only way to deny them to an enemy.

The lives of dozens of undercover FBI agents and numerous ongoing investigations are at stake if the reports are decoded by outsiders. It would be a great waste and a terrible tragedy if you were to fail: all those sources of information, dead. Besides, it's your job to keep them safe, and you never do a job halfway. Colleagues have described you as "meticulous", "driven", "unbelievably focused", and "just so damn intense it's creepy".

You consider yourself a scientist first, ever searching for insights into the human psyche. Toward this end, you've immersed yourself in your studies. To say the least. You've studied psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School, combat mentality as a field medic during the Gulf War, abnormal psychology in the Texas State Schools, religion as a novitiate with the Sisters of the Divine Inspiration, psychotropic drugs & mob mentality at dozens of raves from Boston to Seattle...and it hasn't been nearly enough. Man's thought processes are a wonderfully complex tangle you need more time to explore. You've never understood why behavioral sciences were considered "soft and fuzzy" by some of your medical colleagues. In a purely mathematical sense, the human mind is a fascinating area of study.

If you could, you'd dissect it with a scalpel.

As part of its ongoing plans, your "true" organization has been experimenting with mind-control drugs. Regrettably, you haven't been able to take part in this research due to your position in the FBI. All you can do is follow the work from afar. The frustration has been terrible. The latest batch of the drug came closest to success. That is to say, it didn't reduce the subjects to blithering idiots or send anyone into a coma upon testing.

Unfortunately, it doesn't completely work. It does makes a great truth serum, though. Within ten minutes of injection, subjects are rendered incapable of lying for the duration of the effect. They also become susceptible to mental impressions; you can "suggest" false memories to cover up their recent experiences. Needless to say, the interrogation department was ecstatic. A truth serum that not only works but permits you to erase the subject's memories of the interview? What more could one wish?

Last week, according to your sources, the lab where the drug was being studied was raided. You don't know all the details, but you know at least one sample was last known to be in Dallas. You have early warning of the orders currently working their way through normal channels. Your team will be told of a stolen "experimental CIA drug" they should attempt to recover. If you were able to lay hands on the drug and study its effects, just think how much you could learn! Your superiors would have to understand if you were to forced to "destroy" the drug to avoid its capture. And then it would be all yours...

As mentioned, you are dedicated to your tasks and will work tirelessly to find the NoC reports and the code books. Your personal interest, of course, is in that drug sample. Since you know your team will shortly be assigned to look for it, things are working out well. There's no need to tell your team why you want it so badly; they'll think it's just dedication to your work. Which, in a certain way, is true.

Sam Stone, team leader

Another FBI agent, he's from the RICO division. He's also a fascinating subject for study. He honestly believes he serves the goals of justice and decency, yet he regularly breaks the law and lures people into criminal behavior so he can arrest them. Such a magnitude of self-delusion is impressive. Of course, you agree with him that the "victims" are criminals who deserve punishment. You just don't delude yourself that your actions are morally justified.

Tara Carver, DEA agent

Her motives are correct in that she wants to punish wrongdoers. However, it's difficult to instill a proper sense of perspective on her goals. She insists on trying to arrest each and every crook as soon as she encounters them. She needs to realize that it's better to ignore such low-ranking targets in order to get close to move important targets. If supervised, though, she generally performs acceptably.

David Walcott, ATF agent

This one also has trouble letting the little fish go so you can catch the big ones. With him, though, you wonder if he wants to arrest them or just shoot them. After all, Waco wasn't that long ago - or that far from here. Your current theory is that, in his service to his vision of the Law, he has abandoned all pretense of actually following it.

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