I’m a cleaner – Mission 9

A deal is going down in Vegas. An Arab mob boss is exchanging a briefcase of diamonds for some DNA samples with a white supremacist – a Nazi basically. To check out the DNA the Arab has brought along his own personal scientist. I’m contracted to kill all three guys and put in an extra kicker through stealing the diamonds. The deal is happening in the middle of a casino/hotel and it’s heavily guarded. Initial thoughts are that I’m going to have two major problems here – one is the amount of witnesses. The casino is teeming with staff and patrons and everywhere is busy. The second will be actually getting to my targets; The Arab always have a entourage of guards with him and will be in a sectioned off area of the casino, the scientist will be in a locked room on a floor I don’t have access to, and the supremacist has a room that I do have access to, but behind a keycarded door.

I stand outside the casino and take a deep breath. It’s night time but you wouldn’t know it with the amount of tacky golden light is being kicked off by the casino entrance. It’s themed in a hideous Arabic fashion – something like what you would get if Lawrence of Arabia ran a pound shop and you decorated your house using nothing but it’s contents. Already security is everywhere but they don’t look like anything special – ex cops probably, either too old or too useless to do the job. Still, they have guns. I have guns too though, my trusty silenced .45, a sniper rifle and a silenced sub-machine gun – just in case. Just for fun I also brought along a couple of remote mines – you never know when concealable explosives might come in handy.

The interior of the casino isn’t much better than the exterior; full of horrible cheapness and fake gold. I head over to reception and grab a room key – I’m on the 7th floor. Not much point in me heading up yet though so I hang around the foyer, near the lifts to the hotel rooms. The lobby is busy, people wandering around, staff cleaning floors, security guards silently overseeing, and hookers touching up potential clientèle. I just watch until the first of my targets finally arrives; The Scientist. He heads through the foyer without any fuss but with a bodyguard discreetly shadowing him. The Scientist walks straight past me into the lift but foolishly leaves his guard in the foyer. I consider jumping in the lift with him to just take him out there and then. I could, but time would be an issue because as soon as the lift doors open someone is probably going to see a body and me standing next to it. That may look suspicious so instead I wait.

As I stand around waiting The Arab arrives via limo with his guards. I try to look inconspicuous and ignore him – he’s going to die last today. The Arab wanders into the casino proper along with his entourage and shortly after The Supremacist turns up. Frankly, I want to kill the guy as soon as I see him. Nazi fuck, this is one kill I’m going to utterly delight in. I follow him into the lift and up to the 7th floor then to his room. I’m breathing down his neck the whole way, my trigger finger practically in spasm. It takes everything for me to not empty an entire clip into his horrible face but I’m a cleaner, a professional, not just a killer.

With the Nazi in his room I mentally prepare myself for what I’m going to have to do. I double check my maps that I’m right; The Scientist is on the 8th floor, me and The Nazi are on the 7th. The Scientists room is on the opposite side of the hotel to the Nazis so from his room window I should be able to see the scientists. Also in The Nazis room is the briefcase with the DNA samples in that he will be handing over to The Arab. I’m going to have to be fast. I trigger a fire alarm.

Floor 7 erupts as I walk towards the Nazis room. He dashes past me, forgetting to shut his door and I run in. The DNA case is on the floor, just as it should be. I slip a remote mine into it then run to the window and unpack my rifle. The alarms are still ringing, I’ve got time before the Nazi is back. The window of The Scientists room is empty. Dam it, come on. The alarm stops. Fuck. I have about 25 seconds before the Nazi is back in his room. 20 seconds. Come on! Finally a shadow appears in the window. It’s him. The rifle barely makes a noise as the shots cracks through our window, then The Scientists window, then The Scientists skull. 15 seconds. I pack the rifle into it’s case. 10 seconds. I can’t risk leaving the room now, instead I dive into a bedroom and lock myself in a wardrobe. 0 Seconds. The Nazi is back in his room but as long as the guy doesn’t decide he wants to get changed I should be fine.

The Nazi doesn’t need to change clothes. He does flex around in the mirror a bit but that’s all. My trigger finger is in spasm again as I watch him through the gap in the wardrobe but again, I refrain. Eventually he leaves the room entirely and I follow him – walking past the DNA case on the way. Oh dear – he really should have that with him. I follow The Nazi through the hotel and casino. He seems to be going to the meeting, this could work out bad. I ready myself to grab my gun. The Nazi goes into the bar – he is one room away from the meeting. I eye up the guards in the room – 3 that I can see. Lots of civilians. The Nazi goes to the bar, he takes a drink, then heads out. Relief floods over me. I follow him all the way back to his room which he comes out of briefcase in hand – mission is going forward nicely.

I jump back into one of the lifts with the Nazi as we head to the meeting and he does something rather strange. He puts the DNA briefcase on the floor, takes a gun out of his pocket and puts it in the case, then picks it back up again as if nothing had happened. Did he not care that I had just seen him do it in plain sight? Obviously not. It worries me that he’s put a gun in there anyway – is he planning on killing The Arab? That would save me a job but it’s too much of an unknown quantity to plan for. We get out of the lift and I follow him through the foyer and into the bar. Guards stop me as he goes into the meeting with The Arab. It’s just in a private sectioned off areas of the bar so if I stand just to the side of the entrance I can just see the meeting.

I wait in the bar. And wait. The meeting is taking place and the case is on the floor. The case with the DNA, and that remote mine I put in there. What is missing is the case with the diamonds – my intel tells me this will be bought in. I wait. The Arab and the Nazi are chatting and watching a dancer – I’m sure they have plenty to talk about. A door to the bar opens and a suited guard walks through with a briefcase. 3. He walks past the guards who blocked my way. 2. He walks into the meeting. 1. He places the case of diamonds on the floor. I pull a detonator out of my pocket. 0.

The meeting explodes and the casino panics. People start running frantically without direction or purpose. Guards pile in to where the now dead Nazi and Arab are. The unfortunate dancer is lying next to them, along with two guards who were overseeing the meeting – all dead. In seconds onlookers are also piling in out of morbid curiosity to stare at the what must be mutilated bodies. It is utter chaos. Screaming, shouting, running. Except for me. I walk through the people and casually pick up the case of diamonds. Everyone is too pre-occupied to notice. I walk out. Five dead, no witnesses.