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Once they had the information from Mercedez, Drake had placed another call, stepping away from the others to place it privately. He’d need an authentic reaction of surprise for this part of his plan to work. He also didn’t want the others to reject it as being too stupid for words. Drake could see it in his head; he just hoped that the reality matched when it caught up with them.
For the third call, because Altman spoke Spanish and Drake didn’t, Altman then played the role of Gutierrez. He placed a panicked call to the military commander that Mercedez thought was most likely to be involved with siphoning money off a big construction project in his area.
Altman started nearly hysterical, then escalated from there.
Drake could only assume he was on script, since he supposedly was shou
