Leo Verifies Hostages, Briefs Mickey, Orders Rescue Plans
Plot Beats
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Leo presses the DEA rep for verification on the captured agents' identities, emphasizing caution to avoid notifying wrong families.
Mickey joins the Situation Room, and Leo briefs him on the CRF's capture of 5 DEA agents at a cocaine lab in Bogotá.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
professional
Reports verification status of captured agents McGraff and Nunn, notes inability to verify the other three
- • Provide accurate update on agent verification
Professionally alert amid escalating tension
Robbie crisply identifies Tres Encinas as nearest ground forces, confirms the scant 19 personnel count, and acknowledges Leo's directive to Special Ops at Ft. Bragg for three unilateral strike plans within the hour.
- • Relay accurate asset locations and numbers
- • Execute orders for rapid rescue plan development
- • Ground intel accuracy is mission-critical
- • Special Ops can execute despite numerical disadvantages
Concerned optimism tempered by strategic realism
Mickey enters purposefully and sits, absorbing Leo's briefing on the five DEA agents' capture, affirming their likely survival, contextualizing Puente Mayo as Affronte turf and proposing dialogue via CRF commander Nelson Guerra, then estimating 500+ guards while conceding the grim rescue math.
- • Initiate negotiation channel through Nelson Guerra
- • Provide accurate terrain intel to inform response
- • Dialogue with insurgents can yield hostage releases
- • Affronte/CRF dynamics offer exploitable entry points
Neutral (referenced off-screen)
Nelson Guerra invoked by Mickey as probable CRF negotiation contact and Jeffe's friend, prompting Leo's intel demand, positioning him as pivotal rebel figure in the hostage standoff.
Endangered captives (referenced)
Agents McGraff and Nunn confirmed captured and alive by DEA Rep at Leo's insistence, anchoring the crisis's human stakes amid three unverified colleagues.
Neutral (referenced off-screen)
Jeffe referenced by Mickey as Nelson Guerra's close friend, surfacing as potential diplomatic leverage in CRF talks.
Reports 6 commanders and 13 support personnel at Tres Encinas
- • Report accurate troop numbers at Tres Encinas
Location Details
Places and their significance in this event
Puente Mayo invoked by Mickey as Affronte stronghold housing the top-producing cocaine lab raided by DEA agents, underscoring enemy entrenchment and complicating rescue prospects.
Tres Encinas pinpointed by Robbie as closest U.S. ground forces—six commanders and 13 support—now thrust into the fray by Leo's alert order, highlighting America's perilously thin forward presence.
Ft. Bragg tasked by Leo with producing three unilateral op plans in one hour via Special Ops Command, transforming it into the military engine primed for hostage blitz amid the room's escalating directives.
The Situation Room serves as the high-stakes command nexus where Leo orchestrates the crisis response, with suits and uniforms clustered around the scarred table amid flickering screens and shuffling folders, channeling post-SOTU elation into grim geopolitical calculus.
Bogotá cited by Leo as crisis epicenter where five DEA agents were seized at 2:00 P.M. local time, framing the ambush's immediacy and thrusting Colombia's narco-violence into the room's deliberations.
Organizations Involved
Institutional presence and influence
DEA's captured agents—McGraff and Nunn verified, three pending—drive the crisis verification debate led by Leo, with their rep reporting status, elevating federal narcotics ops into White House imperatives.
CRF identified by Leo as perpetrators snatching five DEA agents from the cocaine lab, with Mickey proposing dialog via their commander Nelson Guerra, framing them as negotiable yet ruthless antagonists.
Affronte pinpointed by Mickey as Puente Mayo overlords whose top cocaine lab was raided, intertwining them with CRF in the hostage matrix and amplifying the rescue's territorial perils.
Special Operations Command at Ft. Bragg ordered by Leo to furnish three unilateral rescue blueprints within the hour, embodying the military's pivot to executable force amid diplomacy's shadow.
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Key Dialogue
"LEO: Are we verifying exactly who was at the Lab? DEA REP: We verified Agents McGraff and Nunn, but we still can't verify the other three. LEO: I don't want to misnotify the families."
"LEO: Mickey, 2:00 P.M. local time in Bogot., 5 DEA Agents assisting police in evidence gathering at a cocaine lab were taken by the CRF. MICKEY: Are they alive? LEO: We think so."
"LEO: Not the numbers you're hoping for if you're contemplating a massive attack and rescue mission. LEO: Tell Special Operations Command at Ft. Bragg to submit three plans for a unilateral op. They have an hour."