After having a heated discussion with the Prime Minister of India about how RAW had marked the catastrophe as not a credible one due to which the ATS didn’t take it seriously, Skye called Girik. Girik was sound asleep and didn’t answer his phone on the first try. “Pick up the phone idiot!!!” said Skye while trying to call the second time. Girik answered on the last ring.
He yawned loudly and said, “Yes ma’am?”
“Get up you fool!! You were right!! The threat was real and it has already happened. We need to get to the bottom of this as soon as possible. Get your ass to the office in 15 minutes!” and she hung up.
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Girik was wide awake now. He quickly gathered all his files, put on some decent clothes and got on his bike to get to office. He had a Royal Enfield Classic 350 and the bike suited his bulky hunk of a body perfectly.
Skye was waiting for him at the entrance. As soon as he arrived, she said, “Hand me those files and let me study them.”
“Where can I find out about how the attack actually took place?” asked Girik.
“Set yourself up in the conference room, I’ll be there shortly. The entire attack is being broadcasted everywhere, you can check them out to catch up.”
Girik followed the commands and went into the conference room. Two of his senior colleagues were sitting in the office and various international agency representatives including CIA, MI6, RAW, ISI were present there. He quickly read all the articles he could find on the attack. The attack and his rough plan had both differences and similarities. His plan was just a thought and this was an extremely organized and synchronized attack.
Skye walked in as soon as he was done. She took the center stage and addressed the entire conference. “Hello everyone”, she said, “I’m sure, each and every one of you received a tip off about this bizarre attack and as it was highly improbable, all of us ignored it. Unfortunately, the threat wasn’t only credible but has actually been executed with perfection. One of our agents has successfully mapped a rough plan of how this plan could have been executed and with the help of international cooperation, we can catch this son of a bitch before any other attack.”
“I would now ask Detective Girik Rakkar to take the stage and brief us on his findings.”
Girik had no idea that he would be speaking today. He got up to the center of the stage and began his presentation. “With nothing but a recording, any one of us would feel that this task is completely impossible but I’m sure that the people at NSA or any other technology savvy agency would believe that it is highly probable. The file that we received is the key to everything. Each and every one of our agency has rigorous security tests and algorithms that protect us from any kind of unwanted access or breach. But in today’s age, a global breach is just waiting to happen.”
“As a terrorist who is planning a globally scaled attack, the first thing is to blind all the world renowned agencies. The easiest way to do so is take away their eyes. I would first send each and every one of these said agencies, a file. This file had to be credible enough to be played but not that credible that the agencies start taking it seriously. Once the file makes its way to any one of the system, the backdoor gets installed. This backdoor, then allows me to control each and every aspect of the agency. This includes, nuclear launch codes, locations of high value targets, identities of all active agents, etc.”
“Once I have all the information, all I need to do is execute my plan.”
“Let me stop you right there”, said Dilip Bakshi, Chief of Cyber Security RAW. “We checked the file and it was completely clean. It was just an audio file.”
The Deadline
“Gentlemen,” Girik continued, “I don’t have any proof to back up my claim yet, but this is my hypothesis on how the plan could be executed. Give me 24 hours and I would get you proof and with your cooperation, this culprit would be behind bars as well.”
“You have 12 hours to find proof and 48 hours to find the culprit” said Dilip and his RAW team packed up and left. Slowly all the agencies followed and only Skye and Girik were in the room.
Continued at Three Eight One Six Four Zero Nine Six Six Two – Chapter III
