At Jasmine's Home:

Jasmine collects her stash of drugs hidden under the bed and goes to the bathroom. She puts it all in the toilet and flushes it.

"You're gonna turn your life around, girl," she says to her mirage in bathroom glass. Her mind reminisces about her visit to the hospital last day.

"Jasmine I'll talk to Leyla about you & Rick," says her mom.

I've been promoted to be a manager. A decent salary would mean good care of my family. So no more pain & suffering. I think I'm now ready for this.

"If that's what you want," Jasmine says with a shy smile. 

"I knew you'd finally come around." She took her pills with a glass of water. "We'll plan for next month okay?"

Jasmine shakes her head in agreement. The memory blurs out and she sees herself in the mirage.

Decent job, good care of mom & brother and a gentleman in my life. "It's time for us, Rick." 

After finishing her daily chores she wakes her brother Adam and puts a bar of chocolate in his hand. 

"Oh wow thanks," he says smiling.

"Welcome...I am heading out for work." She steps out.

"Oh Rick, got a minute?" She asks as she sees Rick coming downstairs in a hurry.

"Of course." He stands near her.

Pmmm! Pmmm!

A loud horn disturbs them. Rick turns his head towards the exit.

"I guess that's for you," Jasmine says peeking at a car parked on the road. "No worries we'll talk later."

"Sorry for this." Rick waves a bye and pats towards it.

Pmmm! Pmmm!

Car horn roars again. "For god's sake!! Laura Dunham, just kill me already." Rick walks faster shouting.

Laura Dunham. Interesting name. Who is she? Jasmine wonders.

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They move to a mission location. Laura parks the car in a 4 storey rooftop parking lot. They get out. She looks with binoculars at a big hotel.

"Gordon Miller, 46 is having some suspicious activity. He has a booking in that room." She hands over the binoculars to Rick and points straight to a room.

"Looks like he's come," Rick informs as he sees a woman wearing a leather jacket opening the room door from inside. Miller enters the room. 

Laura takes binoculars from him. "Huh. he's having an affair." She sighs and gives it back to him and goes to her car.

She comes back with a camera. "Here, take some photos and we'll be on our way." 

"But they're not doing what they're supposed to do," Rick informs as he notices they have been just talking since Miller came.

Laura hands over the camera and takes binoculars. Rick clicks some photos when the man puts & opens a suitcase full of cash on bed.

The woman in the room takes out a camera and focuses on Miller. He ducks down laughing. 

Click!

A bullet comes out of the woman's camera and hits the window glass.

"Bloody hell!! She's an assassin!!" Laura puts binoculars down. "Get in the car!!" she shouts.

Rick gets in. "Filcher, a Congressmen is having a press conference in the hotel there, Miller hired her to kill him," she puts the pieces of Puzzle together.

"Hold tight." She puts in gear for reverse. The car comes backwards to the end of the roof. She kicks the accelerator, the car goes blazing.

Whooosh!!!

The car parts the roof flying in the air. "Are you crazy?" Rick shouts in panic in mid-air.

The car lands on a 2 storey building nearby with a loud thud. "Trust me, you need some crazy people in the world to keep it normal," Laura replies and moves car towards the end.

Whooosh!!!

The car jumps off the two storey building roof to land on the main road. "Wow!! now we'll get hit driving in the wrong lane," Rick whimpers, seeing all cars turned towards them.

The car dodges an SUV only to face a truck in front. "Hang on." Laura puts on the handbrake and turns the steering wheel quickly.

The car drifts screeching tires to become 180° to the truck. And gets out of the truck's way touching it thinly in corners.

"That was too close!!" Rick shouts. "Nah, that was too easy!!" she chuckles. 

The car reaches the hotel front in a minute. Laura gets out with guns in both hands. She double taps the guards on the door and enters the hotel. 

"Great. No gun for me." Rick checks the glove box in the car with no guns. He takes a chloroform bottle out. And goes to the back of the hotel.

He sees a man smoking a cigarette. Man's coat is having a badge of PRESS. Rick wets his hanky and puts on man's nose from behind. He faints.

Rick wears the man's coat and enters the hotel from its back gate.

Meanwhile, Laura puts a bullet in a guard's leg in the hotel's alley. Two come from a room to the left and thrashes her onto the wall on the right. Her guns fall on the ground.

She gives a punch to one's nose. And she swings her leg for a flying kick to another one. A bullet hits the wall touching her hair in mid-air.

Quickly picking the gun she shoots the guard on the staircase who fired at her. She runs through the staircase tapping bullets in guards and reaches the 2nd Floor, place of press conference.

Meanwhile, Rick got in a lift swiftly, showing his press badge to guards. Whistling in restfulness he takes a bottle of wine from a waiter standing in the lift. He steps out on the 2nd floor calmly.

People from the press have already gathered there. The assassin is there too with her camera. Mr. Filcher steps on the stage.

The assassin focuses her camera on him.

Laura with guns in her both hands gets noticed by two guards on the floor. They point their guns at her. "Put your weapons down," they warn her.

Left with no choice, she bows slowly to put guns on the floor.

"Ah, this tastes like shit." Rick takes a sip from his wine bottle. He throws it straight in face of Filcher on stage.

The bullet from assassin's camera hits the guard behind him as he stumbles with the blow of bottle.

The other guards cover Filcher and move towards exit. All press reporters except one rush to exit in panic. 

Laura gets out of sight of the guards unnoticed as they turn towards chaos. She follows the assassin who is now mixed in the crowd.

Getting close to the assassin in the hallway Laura thrashes her into a room breaking its door.

"Nice to see you, Mia," Laura says, noticing the name on the assassin's press badge. Mia throws a chair on her which she dodges by ducking.

Laura gets close to punch her in the face but she dodges and Laura gets one in the belly instead. A punch from Mia in the face settles Laura on the floor.

Mia focuses her camera on Laura lying on the floor. 

"Hey, why don't you take a selfie?" Rick barges in suddenly. Startled Mia turns towards him.

Laura slides on the floor closer to Mia. And gives a powerful kick to her. Mia hits a big window behind her, Breaking the glass!! of which she drops to the ground.

Looking down from the window at the lifeless body of Mia. Laura calls Reid. "Miller had hired an assassin, I have some pics of them together."

"Send it over, the FBI will take it from here," Reid orders. "How's Rick's performance?"

"He did drama." Laura gazes at Rick. He frowns. "Good drama though," she adds, hanging up.

"I think I should've let her click your photo," Rick whimpers.

"I would've requested for a group photo then," she chuckles. "I'll drop you at your office...I kinda owe it to you"

"You owe me a lot more than that," Rick corrects.

They get in the car and speed away. Laura stops the car near Rick's office.

"Rick, I need you to recommend a friend of mine at your office." Laura requests like ordering. "You have a good reputation here right?"

If reputation for lying counts then I would top. Rick thinks recalling his lies to Amy Matt & Jared. "Of course just send me the CV." He steps out of the car smiling.

Click-click!

Someone clicks their photo standing on the other side of the road.

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At Rick's Office:

"So how are things between you two?" Matt asks Amy in her cabin.

"It's good." She nods. "Rick is writing a novel and we discuss the ideas very often."

"And you're still withholding the truth waiting for him to change," Matt adds. "Waiting for his feelings for you."

"I can wait for him for my whole life," she says with conviction.

"Hmm. How did it start, however?" Matt asks according to Jared's plan.

"5 years ago. Me and Jared had just launched our accounting software." She puts her laptop aside.

"I was giving a public conference. After it ended a guy came to me and praised me for achieving so much at a young age." She smiles reminiscing it.

"I liked his praises but then wisdom bugged me. I called HR to see if there was someone named Rick for an interview and guess what she said?" She asks Matt.

"The HR confirmed Rick was there," Matt guesses.

"Yes I thought he was just praising me to get the job so I told HR to make his interview tougher." 

"But he still aced it didn't he
?" Matt interrupts.

"Yes, not only that. He aced all challenges I kept giving him secretly. And in just 3 years he became 2nd to Jared in Finance Division." 

"He not only won the challenges but your heart too." Matt sighs and lays out the fact.

"Yes he won that too with his hardwork and kind nature" She smiles.

"If I had wanted he would've got that job position instantly but I didn't want to repeat my mom's-" She bites her lip.

"Mom, what happened with your mom?" Matt asks, intrigued.

Amy types on her laptop. "I just recalled some very important work."

"Yeah okay I'll leave you to it." He steps out of her cabin. 

Matt goes to Jared's cabin and explains how Amy fell for Rick. Jared thinks through it for the next step.

"Okay then here's the idea. I'll promote Rick 2nd to Amy in the product division." Jared snaps his fingers. "That way they will stay close."

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