CSCI pt 03 Cruise Ship Crime Investigators - CRUISE SHIP HEIST

chapter five not so fast the queue moves rapidly past a female Customs officer the old couple in front of me a waved through but I'm stopped I present my passport and lift my cases ready to be searched purpose of visit I've come to see my daughter I blurt out and then wonder why I've said it she live here you planning to live here this could still go all wrong I'm joining a cruise ship she's a dancer there I'm being precise trying not to engage further interest nice nice father you have a nice day with your daughter she weighs me through what an ordeal feeling free I check my watch to assess the time lost from my plane to get to the rainforest you can release the soldier from the service but not the military position from the man I accelerate out of the terminal into a wall of heat and see a man holding up a sign with three names on it mine Karen Phillips is at the top plus Ron Cohen and George Harding damn I must wait for two others I'm Phillips Captain Phillips he laughs in a way that shows he's been saving this joke for ages but it goes over my head Tom Hanks he adds as if I should now applaud you Tom Hanks Captain Phillips I have no idea what he's on about I scan the area where there are few taxi drivers left hustling for trade my mystery military wing woman from the plane strides in from the flank she Taps her name on the card that's me Miss Ronnie Cohen she smiles and turns to me Ron is a woman so you're not a gay dad and there's no wife or partner nice swerve I thought she had you you either lip read or you have very sharp ears had she not been arrested I could have enlightened her with the rest of my boring story but I guess she wasn't interested in me I adopted my daughter alalia is a dancer on the cruise ship you missed that bit I told that to the Customs officer if they get together later they'll have the full story I offer my hand and we shake Ronnie Navy marine biologist she offers knowing I'll return similar information Kieran Phillips Road tank regiment Cavalry she grins it's not really a question she's showing she knows my regimen historically tanks descend from the horse Bank Calvary regiments and she'll have assessed that I'm too tall to have ever been inside a tank she probably thinks I'm from the household cavalry I match her grin and we both turn back and look towards the terminal waiting for the last person I'm thinking Ronnie's no biologist and I'm hoping she's not thinking I'm just a ceremonial guard do you get the feeling I start that she's not going to make it Ronnie picks up our girl will your Latin lover no what does she mean by our girl chapter 6 medical issue the taxi drivers have all drifted away from the front of the airport indicating that all the passengers are through and the day's industry has finished I sense our drivers impatience do you normally do the commentary through the Panama Canal I ask Ronnie no why sounds like your field Navy and I'm hoping that I don't have to do it I'm the Eco officer on board I deal with compliance at Sea I do rules and regulations I don't do shows she says smiling me neither I was due to do the Memorial Day service last week but someone seems to think I might have a few interesting stories I say staring at the airport which is now like a ghost town best ones are always the ones you can't talk about or don't want to I add why do it if you don't want to you must be on a handsome pension they stripped me of that this could be a new career you'll do fine the canal was built by an army of men with big trucks you've got that down the rest is on the internet tank commander we go our driver suggests turning impatiently we both stand firm it must be a military thing not wishing to leave a man behind when if just given a few minutes more they might make it ship doesn't sail for hours Ronnie says the driver relents with a grunt and stands dwarfed between us a small local man carrying a pegboard of local lottery tickets approaches I've no idea why he thinks a tourist would buy a ticket he can't collect on he looks like he needs the money and I hand him five dollars but as much as I would like to win a fortune I don't take a ticket I'm about to get on a cruise ship and get paid for it I've never been lucky with money but my life's not that bad our driver shoes the old man away and we focus on a woman rushing from the building she pulls a case on Wheels and has a large bag trapped under her other arm like a rugby ball she Powers Beyond us not wanting to stop that's me she says nodding at the driver's sign thanks for waiting let's keep it moving the shortest distance between toilets please walking fast she turns to me Kieran right I nod you don't look six foot three though I'll give you the dark slim handsome and charismatic bit in your biography my agent must have written that in the agent box it said direct so I'm guessing you wrote it she replies striding even faster I watch her strange long double bag on Wheels in an ill-fitting cover wobble behind her held only by her squeezing the two handles together what can be the hurry after being so late she pushes her carried bag into the arms of the taxi driver a diva on a mission she must be an Entertainer thanks for waiting Ronnie always welcome Georgie of course these two know each other their fellow crew the driver lifts the tailgate and dips down for her bag but she gets there first the ill-fitting cover is hiding a hard red case on top of a cheaper one a red case like the one I'd lifted from the overhead Locker for the Latina woman who was arrested the cover is a disguise I don't double take show surprise or even skip a breath neither does Ronnie though she may not have noticed if she's a marine biologist Georgie turns for my case she's in a hurry and the driver is confused I'm not well uncontrollable bows bows the shits for the sake of your vehicle I suggest the fastest route I'm curious as to whether dread fear and panic are the causes of her medical issue chapter 7 uniforms did you bring your uniform I'm asked by Georgie clutching her hand luggage tight to her chest she leans forward to the driver powering through the traffic and shakes his shoulder you'll never be a racing driver I did did what she asks bring my uniform you'll do fine then even though I bet you know nothing about the canal right she laughs I didn't say that I correct her but it does seem ridiculous that I'll be posturing as an expert to a few thousand guests after having done a little homework on the web we never sent the British army to Panama she mocks no but Britain was part of the plan in 1843 though it never carried it through had it been you'd have been on it she cuts in with enough punch and Intrigue to have a drummer rep out a two-hit sting I need to learn from her no but it might have been called the Atlantic and Pacific Canal they may have even tried to fit British in the title just testing I don't need to hear the whole act she says None of the Panama lecturers were ever at the build they all studied it don't worry but I am an expert on tracked Vehicles big diggers Building Bridges people movement and operations maybe I'll be different I can see you're different she smiles in the back seat it's easy for me to look behind the bag hidden under George's cover looks like the Latinas missing fourth bag if heavy this one's full of money too and someone may well have died for it so what's Georgie up to Ronnie notices me eyeing the luggage she's far too Street wise for a biologist she's not just worked in the field she's worked in someone else's field I suspect like me she's done duties she will never speak of so that'll be a conversation we won't have is she wondering if Georgie is smuggling money or drugs or is she in on it that could be a serious Hall of cocaine the size of which sees you locked up for Life anywhere our cruise ships part of the drug Route Around The World I'm now assessing my awkward position very differently I'm your manager and your daughter's boss Georgie says does she know I've noticed the bag I have two uniforms I'll look the part I hold her guilty gaze save them for your stage lecture they won't see you do the Panama commentary they'll be looking at the canal you'll be on a microphone on the bridge and I suggest you don't try and out uniform the captain well I am Captain Phillips I say repeating what was supposed to be a joke that's not funny she says and I agree no idea why we approached the port gates with armed guards more Customs I asked Grande thinking of the routine off the plane into the country out of the country onto the ship Ronnie looks from the security to Georgie who appears fearful the guards stop our minibus one is at the front another with a mirror on a pole looks underneath a third guard opens the back door looks at our cases then straight at me he takes a probe with a cloth on the end and rubs the cases one then the other the swab goes into a detector which is triggered and we wait for the lights to settle it looks like I won't be going to the rainforest [Music]