"Whatever. Honestly I'm not sure we have enough people here for anything we're trying to do. Not that I have a very clear picture of what that even is. - regardless, sure, now that you've got it I think you should take your appointment with Donovan. But I think we should have everyone we have watching the house while you do."

"It's not an appointment with Donovan specifically, it's an invitation to a fundraiser, there'll be dozens of people there. But you're still right."

"All right. Well. Let's sit down and figure out how we're going to keep an eye on you at it. Where's this fundraiser happening?"

Thank you Anita for being reasonable and professional here.

Mordred shares what he knows about the fundraiser, which is:

- it is tomorrow evening

- it is at Donovan's house

- it is, presumably, going to have lots of security, since Donovan goes with a dozen armed guards to visit her daughter in the hospital

- it is for the Committee for the Protection of Morals.

"What exactly does the Committee for the Protection of Morals... do?"

"What morals are they protecting?"

"Try to stop people from having weird sex and listening to jazz music, I expect, same as social purity crusaders back home?"

"Do you expect Lukas to be there?"

"I don't know. Inaaya didn't mention him being there but wouldn't necessarily have thought it was important."

"We'd better plan for yes, then, and you'd better have a plan to avoid him. And the goons who saw you, do you think you'd remember their faces?"

"Prescott, yes, but not everyone who was in the warehouse when Zoe and Oswald were."

"That makes it tough. It's invitation-only, not open to the public?"

"It's not open to the public, no."

"And you're going as Inaaya's plus one, no one else can get in as your date?"

"I think we should definitely have a plan for if your cover gets blown. Doesn't have to be elaborate."

"Invitation is for everyone she believes to be working for Walker, so Oswald can go unless he thinks his coworkers will recognize him, Lev can but shouldn't, and you and Zoe can but you were trying to avoid them knowing you were connected to us at all."

"I used my connection to the L.A. branch to get hired in the first place. They might not think anything of it."

"...I did use a different name."

"Well, then maybe the people she knows are connected to you can go and keep an eye on you and help scope out the place, and I can stand by to be getaway driver if anything goes horribly and you need to run away?"

"I'm not sure what's most useful for me to do, we can figure it out after my and Oswald's shift?"

The warehouse shift has become surprisingly routine.

Go to work. Stand around with a gun watching people pack Nectar. Occasionally gossip on breaks about football (non-American version).

However, today there is a disruption in the routine when Victoria Prescott, their boss, calls some of the guards into her office.

Is this about security for the party? He hopes it is about that and not something much worse.

Eventually Oswald, Zoe, and a few other guards are called in.

"There is a fundraiser in two days at Miss Donovan's mansion."

"Miss Donovan will not be attending, and has taken her guards with her."

"So we need some extra coverage."

"Anyone who wishes may work the party and ensure no one goes anywhere they shouldn't. You will, of course, get time and a half for overtime."

"How early should we arrive?"

"An hour early for setup."