<div class="floatleft">(http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2007/12/25/amd_michelle-rodriguez.jpg)</div><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Character name:</strong></td><td>Major Anne Laughton</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Location:</strong> </td><td>The Observation post</td></tr><tr><td><strong>With:</strong> </td><td>Everyone except Nikki.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Doing:</strong> </td><td>Going over the plan one more time...</td></tr></tbody></table><br/><hr/><br/>Anne peered from the window of the shed, down the hillside, towards the target. With her augmented vision she could see three of the five guards patrolling around. The pinkmobile was parked up near the front entrance. Nikki had signalled she was in on the secure network, and gone to Emission Control status. While in EmCon, she would transmit only what Tisha Magnessen would normally transmit. She would break EmCon only to send a go signal or an abort signal.<br/><br/>Once the attack started, it was Nikki's job to secure the target female and use her reconnaissance to guide the rest of the team into Von Trapp's lab so that her work could be stolen too or destroyed, and to her own location within the building so they could assist in extracting both her and the target.<br/><br/>Anne turned away, glancing at the sniper. "Good enough? You can make the shots from here?" Anne had no doubts as to the girl's abilities, but she had serious doubts as to her sanity. Not that it mattered so long as she did the job. Eve's job was to keep watch, report any unusual activity once the team went in, take out any individuals who might give the game away, take out all the guards when Anne signalled the team were on their way out, and cover the retreat to the van.<br/><br/>The team leader waited for the response from the girl, then moved to the others in the team. She chatted briefly with saul, who's job it was to go in first through a pre-determined route, and under direction of Eric, open an access way for the rest of the team through the châteaux's defences.<br/><br/>"Eric, can you hack the WiFi from here? You'll be closer when the time comes, of course, but if you can get a feel for things now it would be good?" Eric's job was to find a path into the building for Saul, then once in, to take down as many of the automated defences as possible, preferably without alerting the human defenders to the fact. He was the team's R2D2.<br/><br/>She moved next to Zhùhǎo. "Hey, pretty one. How's it going? You all set?" The Chinese girl's job, once in, was to set explosives at critical points around the châteaux, so that shortly after they left there would be just about enough of it left to indicate that there had, at one time, been a building there. She needed to pay special attention to the laboratories, to ensure they were completely obliterated.<br/><br/>Last but not least, Anne moved to talk to Adam. She gave him a half smile. "That was pretty dumb back there, offing Magnessen like that. Never get between a psychopathic killer and her plaything unless you want to be next or you have a serious hold on the psychopath in question! Plus you exceeded your orders. This is a warning, not a reprimand". Reprimands in IF tended to be conical with a hollow point. She grinned. "Just take it easy and try to stay out of her way, okay?" Adam's job, once in, was to guard Zhùhǎo as she laid her charges around the building, and Cavendish, as he guided them.<br/><br/>Her own job, once in, would be to link up with Saul and together locate Nikki and the Target and get them to the exit point. She had Nikki's guns with her. Stack simply wouldn't entrust her weapons to anyone except her lover.<br/><br/>The hours ticked slowly by as they waited for the cover of darkness and the signal to go.