Repose

[Lock: Perry P, Jason W]
Can I request a moment of your time?

[The local Capital news breaks in to the regularly scheduled broadcast of The Late Show.

A super-rare metallic silver Aston Martin One-77 was reported by the owner to have been stolen. The police are in the midst of a very high speed car chase. It has been going on for over an hour at this point, back and forth up and down the highway and through busy Capital streets. There is COPS-style helicopter footage of the car actually slowing down and waiting for the police to catch up before zooming off again in a terribly obvious game of cat and mouse. If one listens carefully under the police dashcam clips that make it to air, peculiar music is being blared by the car.

By the end of the news snippet, the flashy Aston Martin has been lost by the police again. They ask for the public to keep an eye out and to call immediately if they see the car. It's obnoxiously hard to miss. Yet somehow it slips under the radar for the rest of the night.

Several hours later, the car is put back in the garage where it belongs. No harm, no foul. A few extra miles on the odometer. Gas tank even filled up. How considerate.

The Early Show recaps the chase and the outcome the next morning (not as the first story, the one just before the traffic), as well as reports the string of thefts. No alarms were tripped, and the items missing were not expensive per se, but they were apparently targeted for their supposed inability to be taken. Museum pieces that were kept behind lasers, specific safety deposit boxes, elaborate displays of jewelry with 24/7 guards. Six places in total were subjected to their security being breached. Not that it particularly matters.

Everything taken is found inside the trunk of the previously stolen borrowed Aston Martin, completely unharmed, safely wrapped up (literally with bows on them), and labeled with the owners' names and addresses. By the time the news gets to it that morning, the items are already back in their rightful places. The last thing the news reports is the note left in the trunk: "Thanks for a great night, boys. Next time we party for real."

The Capital Police Department is not amused.]