Lower town district, the Wisteria Inn guest room.
"The deal with the local gang failed, and the contact was caught on the spot," a captain of the secret police reported to Earl Heinz Hoffman.
"Not surprising," Heinz replied without any hint of surprise. "If it were a competent leader, after knowing the necessary information, they should have anticipated our move and prepared their subordinates accordingly. But you should have taught those gangsters the correct way to meet up, so how could the contact person still be caught on the spot? Didn't they do as we instructed?"
These days, they had been hiring the local gang to do the same thing they were doing - gathering information about the prison. Of course, in terms of efficiency, the gang could only gather very limited information, with most of the essential intelligence still provided by them.