More drinks, more Berlin clubbing. Jake dances with a tall blonde, then notices The Babe hanging by herself over in a corner. He smiles. She walks up and whispers something to the blonde, who turns and leaves without a second look at Jake. The Babe and Jake dance, staring at each other until she hollers, "What?" Jake yells, "You're beautiful!" She stares at him like he said she had a booger showing. MacP weasels up and hollers, "This is it, he's here!" A beefy guy has arrived and sits at the bar by himself. MacP gives Jake thirty thousand Euros to deliver to the beefy guy. "And don't try to jack us!" Beefy Guy is all, "What?" Jake asks if he has something for him. Yeah, he does. "It took off from Heathrow six minutes ago." Oh no. I have a bad feeling about this.
Jake relays Beefy's message to MacP. The Geek Legion of Doom is elated by the news. "It's on? Oh boy! Woo hoo!" Jake excuses himself to the bathroom.
He calls The Man and explains that something big is in motion. German Intelligence can bust in, but the wheels, they are already turning. Then Babe busts in, and Jake drops his phone in the toilet. She says bluntly, "Who are you?" Jake is all, flagam? She say expositionally that they've been "doing it online for six months." She doesn't need Jake to tell her she's beautiful. "Save your compliments for someone who needs it." Jake follows her and says lamely, "We're not online anymore." She pushes him against the wall and says huskily, "You're breaking all the rules. No real names, no eye contact." He says, "We're breaking the rules." They kiss, and it's hot. Oh, to make out in a Berlin nightclub bathroom. In my fantasy, MacP wouldn't bust in and tell Jake and me to get a move on, since they have work to do.
In a geek parody of the Mean Streets/Reservoir Dogs thug strut, the five criminals and Jake move through the club and head down a guarded corridor. MacP leads them onto a heavily armored elevator and takes them down, "way down." Back in the War Room, there's a beeping. Dr. Thora says that "all of Jake's numbers have disappeared! He's just gone."









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