"Don't tell them I'm working with you. We compartmentalize everything we can." Alistaire says with insistence, as cold and serious as an advancing glacier.

"I can tank a few holdings. I'll take a significant hit, but Sebastian's cut will be next to nothing, and if I pick the properties that still carry the Shaw name, he'll take even more damage to his public perception.

"Let's not delude ourselves though. The war on Sebastian Shaw is going to start slowly, and then be all at once. We need to move quietly, and then decisively. The masterstroke has to be right before he realizes we're the ones behind everything.

"Anything less, and our lives are forfeit. And Marcelo's. And those we keep closest. He'll scorch the earth."