#ideas!!!!!

Basic concept :3

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Is Jane the unknowing rich heiress target

oh my fucking god now okay

i was thinking about this shit at work all day because fixing computers isn't like hard so i can mentally multitask

i had it in my head that dirk is a shadowy unseen fucker who you wire X amount of money and you get an earpiece and suddenly you get an eye in the sky help with whatever job you've gotta get done. only like 5 people in the world know who Timaeus is, the rest assume he's just a bored Skynet. Roxy knows who he is, obviously.

so jake is tasked to get a lead on him, and at the time i was thinking of jane as his partner, but fuck that, i like your idea better.

so jake manages to try to hire dirk, playing like he's a criminal himself. dirk clearly doesn't buy it, but find jake amusing so decides to play along with jake's masquerade. maybe even outright tells him, "I know you're Jake English and you work for Interpol and you were given this job just to fuck with you because everyone thinks you got hired due to nepotism. As someone with famous family, I'm sympathetic. How about you do exactly what I tell you when I tell you, and we'll see about showing those chucklefucks you work with what you're made of?"

so jake accidentally goes deep cover for a heist to rob jane crocker, and secretly has good ol' timaeus in his ear. (Including sleepily talking to him at night, which is new to Dirk.) and the heist goes off pretty well, until the end when jane shows up and applauds jake, because she was in on it the whole time, she and dirk are besties, and jake was just made complicit in an insurance scam.

the story was that jake was undercover pretending to steal shit to get close to timaeus, but now jake's an actual fugitive and his interpol buds are like "what the fuck dude" and timaeus is like "well this was fun. sorry for using you. bye." and the line goes permanently dead.

so jake is like "you JERK" and decides he had to re-establish contact with timaeus to get him to help clear jake's name. which involves kidnapping roxy of all people, because it takes fucking with family to make timaeus show his face.