It doesn’t take very long for Leclerc’s men to finish off Eiger’s security men and they are not tender about it there is some splat and some splash. Evil Hansel watches the whole thing like it doesn’t really mean very much and perhaps it doesn’t. He looks at me for a while and I give him the nod: yes I remember the rest of the deal yes I will deliver. Yes there has been enough assassinating our forefathers now that is enough enough.

Because I mean really haven’t enough people died today already?

Eiger’s wristwatch glows in the dark as the system finally acknowledges what Eiger knew some minutes ago: he dead.

Message sent. Green light.

Back in Bern in the cigar shop the little guy gets the message. He gets up out of bed and he plugs the memory stick into his computer and sends the text file to the place he’s supposed to send it and then he goes back to bed.

I wait a minute longer.

Then I put my hand on the final door and I say:

“Open sesame.”

The door opens.

Doc says: “You fucked up my plan and you made your own plan for the fucking robbery.”

“I did.”

“You made a deal with fucking Leclerc.”

“He was Mr. Client. He was always Mr. Client.”

“You stepped on my work with this bullshit.”

“I did. For reasons.”

“When we are out of here I am going to fucking kill you Jack.”

“You’re going to be pissed with me but you will understand.”

“Will I.”

“Yeah.”

“Do you think that will make it better or worse?”

—

And that is that for the bank. It is only a bank after all, the hard part is always people.

I mean, that is not all, that obviously we have to bring lots of watertight cases out of the vault and drive them in little golf buggies along the corridors back to the main entrance and then we get them down the mountain using the cable car just like Doc said we would. We bring a bunch of boxes for ourselves also with much diamonds and bonds and monies. More than three quarters of what is there we just cannot goddamn carry.

All the same we have robbed the bank just like we were contracted to do by Eiger and then when Eiger turned out to have betrayed us we found a new client and now we will split the take with the new client and that is the end of that job. It was not quiet I guess I mean people will know we were here, but since the quiet thing was Eiger’s stipulation—

This is what winning looks like I guess.

Four Demons and a reserve go down the mountain in silence.