Along the way, they also find two drawings: one of the killer who took care of the music store clerk, and the other of the woman who helped Hunt escape from the Syndicate's jails. And good drawings, eh: what luck that Hunt is also an artist in his spare time!
Anyway, at CIA HQ, the boss is a little grumpy about being taken for a ride by his friend Hunt. So he decides to have his friend Benji interrogated for the umpteenth time, using a lie detector, except that the guy is very good at thwarting these little things (he had a Truth or Dare commando course in his secret agent training), and so pretends that Hunt, he doesn't intend to help him. Except that here's the thing: back at his desk playing bad video games, Benji inspects what he just received in the mail, namely two invitations to the Vienna Opera following a competition he never entered. Yay! he exclaims before promptly flying off to Austria, because yes, the tickets are valid, but for right now. Ah, hey, that's how it is, man.
Once there, Benji is so proud to put on his best tuxedo, and to arrive by subway at the job function email database opera where... good heavens! Someone slips a package into his hands! Containing a computer cleverly disguised as a book (which is completely useless), as well as glasses. The guy puts them on, and hears the voice of his friend Ethan.
“Good evening, Benji, nice to see you again.
” “Wait! Were you expecting me? You mean I didn’t actually win those opera tickets?
” “Um… are those your real lines, man? You’re a tech whiz, and you don’t get suspicious of messages saying “You won!” when you didn’t participate in anything?
” “No way! Besides, I also won the Microsoft lottery, the Bamako bank competition, the Bill Gates association, and even a competition to become the new partner of Maître N’Gomma, who has $1.2 million stuck in the account of a client who died in a plane crash, and I have at least 320 hot girls waiting in line for me. I just thought I was super lucky.
” “That… well, listen, we’ll overlook the fact that you’re an idiot.
” Said the guy who sent me two tickets!
“And?”
– Well, if I had come with someone, how would you have managed to work with me without a witness? You were shooting yourself in the foot!
– Okay, fine, we're two idiots. Right, now I'm going to explain why I brought you here. Look, I'm sending you a drawing on your phone. Do you see the blond man with glasses?
– Yeah, well, it's still a drawing, right.
– I know he'll be at the opera tonight. We have to stop him. You're going to help me, and then you're going back to the country.
– Well... so that's all I came for. Well, fine! Off to the opera, then!
Benji, still in communication with Ethan via his magic glasses, goes to the opera, where he discovers that an important personality is there tonight: the Chancellor of Austria.