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nt, but you haven’t yet dealt with what you’ll have to contend with this time.”“The plan is practically infallible,” the young man dared to answer back.“There’s no such thing,” the other argued. “You have a plan where everything has to come together precisely and you can’t make a mistake. Infallible? Not even the pope.”“Of course, but-”“To finish my point,” he interrupted, “just a little warning.” He waited for the young man to look him in the eye, holding his complete attention. “JC is the man who murdered John Paul the First in 1978, and, even so, he was unable to kill the pope in London. He, too, had never failed.”The young man took in his words and thought about them for a few moments. The old man was right. Overconfidence was the enemy of avoiding mistakes. That was the message the other man wanted him to get.“I understand. I won’t give anyone a chance to try something.” He also realized that if he failed, he wouldn’t survive. Whether through the intervention of JC or through this frequent client of the restaurant located in the unnamed city, he wouldn’t live to see the next day. It was time to change the subject.“What about Mitrokhin?”“I’m on that,” the old man replied. “My contacts in Moscow are taking care of it at this very moment.”“What about the Turk?”“Let him stay a prisoner. He won’t be hurting anyone. Don’t forget, we won’t communicate again until the plan is concluded.”“Yes, I understand. I won’t forget. Only one thing is missing-”“The Vatican,” the older man interrupted. “I’ll take care of them personally.” For the first time the old man smiled faintly.Everything has a beginning.
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WOJTYLAMay 13, 1981Among those twenty thousand people, not one would be able to say with certainty if it rained or the sky wa