2014-04-24 - Cutscene: Jobs Left Unfinished

Seamus MacAuliffe had seen better days since his Clara died. He had always been a hard and angry man, though since his daughter was murdered he had be harder and angrier. So when Mike McGuire came to give him the bad news he hung back until the boss of New York's Irish mob was on his own.

"Seamus," the big Irish captain said as he sat down at the bar next to his boss. "There's been a problem with the O'Conner affair."

Seamus was silent and sipped his drink a moment before making a noise that sounded like permission to continue.

"Our boys, the Mullan brothers, got caught. The said O'Conner had a daughter and stuck around to get her and got caught."

"I warned you about using the Mullan brothers, Mike," Seamus grits out grabbing a bit of ice from his glass and crunching on it. "They're idiots. Did they talk?"

"They swear they didn't Seamus, but it was mutants who caught em, from the school up in North Salem, so they might not have had to talk."

The ice cube crunches and pops between Seamus' teeth. "Mutants," he says. "They get the job done before they got caught by the freaks?"

"Who?"

"The Mullans."

"They think they got the woman, Lynnea, never saw more than a picture of the daughter," he puts his phone down on the bar, it shows a picture of a framed photo of a pretty red-haired girl. "Her name is Siobhan."

Seamus looks down at it. "Pretty," he says. "And did the cops get Lynnea's body?"

"No, they didn't charge the boys with murder. Don't know where the body's at, maybe the mutants took it."

"And the girl too," Seamus reasons as he plucks a fresh cube to crunch on. "Can't take on the mutants, not with our resources, but we're going to need to square this with our friends back home. They wanted this done."

"What do you want me to do?" Mike asks.

"Put the picture of the girl out on the street our people's Cicero's, Ivan's whoever, if they can find the girl and take her out there's fifty large in it for them."

"And the mother?"

"Burn her house down," Seamus decides. "We've got to show them that want her dead that we've made an effort. Buy some time before they come over themselves and make a mess of things."

"Right," Mike says as he stands.

"And Mike," Seamus says. "When you burn the place, make sure it burns green. May as well send a message."