Operation Goldilocks

 April 12th, 199_
Jason dropped his bag on the bed of the Mayfield Heights Comfort Inn, located a few miles east of the PD. As tiring as he was and as inviting as the bed looked, he sat down at the small desk area, pulled the file our of his case and connected and booted the laptop.

He rubbed his eyes, and he filled a glass with two of the small bottles of Scotch from the bar fridge and opened the folder. He glanced over some of the papers inside, while taking his pen and new notepad. Realizing he had forgotten something, he got up, winced, and limped to the nightstand, returning with the King James bible in his hand, looking up Exodus. Sipping from the Scotch, he read through the passage. 

He took a deep breath and started typing out a field report to A-Cell:

• Information gathered by FBI
• No information yet that GL could be part of an organization. 
• So far no indication why the girl was abducted
• Steps taken
• House GL has been investigated with Agent Herschel. No links found that tie GL to DG. Agent Jonah found a book and some notes pertinent to Op: Goldilocks, was able to hide them without knowledge of Agent Herschel.
• Book contains excerpts of Exodus, as well as a chapter called Kenyan Revelations, written by Balfour. He met a “wise prophet” there. Last chapter includes Enochian drawings, thaumathurgical triangles, mathematical formulas without explanation. Possibility of hypergeometry being a factor in this case.
• Suggested to Agent Herschel he follows up on any further information gathered on GL and possible further info on the Church of the Passover Angel, while we take care of the routine follow up, such as talking to GL’s daughter and ex-wife. As no intel was found in GL’s house, there may be the possibility that he stashed info with them.
• To consider:
• Possible coincidence but have witnessed a number of things that match up with Plagues of Egypt (Flies in interview room, large amount of frogs in GL garden, GL’s cat covered in boils). Raises suspicion that hypergeometry being a factor in this case, and that something is already set in motion. 
• In my opinion, GL was still on the job. He found something out about the Church of the Passover Angel and tried to infiltrate in the last 3 years (known to the Balfours as Zac Nowinski.
• Clearly his aim was to isolate the girl, not to eliminate. He has enough opportunity to do this, but chose to get her away with his accomplice, while returning inside Wallmart, making sure all attention was on him and that SWAT team went for him, rather than attention being on the car.
• Leads to believe that Regina is instrumental in what is coming (Sacrifice? Vessel?).
• Church of Passover Angel needs to be investigated. J-Cell insufficient, will have to include Herschel, possible he will want to include local PD backup.
• Notes found by Jonah include underlined passages (red ink) and letters marked with a green triangle (A-H)
• Could be GL leaving intel to be found by us in case something went wrong. No SIGINT skills in J-Cell atm. Can fax a copy, recommend getting this checked ASAP.

He hit the SEND button and turned the laptop off, then took his notebook, walked into the bathroom and burnt it in the sink. He looked in the mirror and went over the other events. Knight is gone. Or soon will be. Joseph wasn’t cut out for the job. Apart from Jonah, there was no J-Cell. He remembered the conversation in the car, cursing the E-cell agent for bringing the others up. “Fuck you, Eve…”

Jonah… Jason sighed. Jonah seemed to be ok. Observant. But clearly totally out of his depth, didn't even have an idea what the Organization was about. The only advantage with Jonah was that he seemed to know a bit about the esoteric part, from an academic point of view. That may be an advantage once it showed him that there is more to the rituals than what he had learnt over the years, and as a result make him a more reliable asset than … well, it wasn’t like there was anyone else out here to help.
Jason made a note to check with Jonah what the dates for Passover were this year, it felt like they may be on a timed schedule if this was some kind of ritual. 

If this is going to be anything like that, the FNG would have to grow up fast. There was no way he could do another ritual like that by himself, he never recovered what he lost there, in that dark room. Agent Herschel seemed to be on top of things, at least on the surface. Jason knew the type. Young, competent, motivated and with an intent to climb the ladder as quickly as possible. Herschel had the look of one of those ambitious agents. 
He hated involving outsiders, but this Opera may need more than just him and Jonah. He just wasn’t sure Herschel would be easily convinced. If this was anything like Iago, circumstances could make Herschel realize he wasn’t in Kansas anymore… 

An unease took hold of Jason, which he tried to wash down with another double Scotch.

He dropped his glass, spilling the liquid all over the grey carpet.
In that room in Meadowbrook, the Black Man… The Thing just stood there, holding out its ebony matte hands, warning him not to do it. 

But it never tried to stop him. 

And when he had uttered those last words, just before it disappeared, it had laughed, like it knew something Jason didn't…