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Channel 12 exclusive. Once again, you’re viewing a live feed of a robbery in progress. Our Action News Team cameraman, Doug Kelly, is the man with the gun at his head, while the man sitting on the floor at the left side of the screen was the last unlucky patron to enter the establishment. Again, we do not know where this is taking place and can only surmise that Doug had the presence of mind to activate his camera and phone before the robbers could discover them. Judging by the angle, they must be sitting atop a corner table and—wait! The man is speaking again.
    “What do you mean you don’t have a phone? A yuppie like you?”
    “I... I left it home by mistake.”
    “You’re lying.”
    A moment later, the diner’s short order cook reached under the counter and came up with a handgun. The man with the ski mask grabbed his wrist and banged his hand against the counter, causing the gun to go off and fire a shot into the wall, then, he viciously pistol whipped the cook, opening a series of bloody gashes across the man’s head. When he released him, the man’s body fell to the floor with a sickening thud.
    “Where the hell did that gun go?” Said ski mask, as he and his companions searched the floor behind the counter.
    The whispered words, “Oh God Chris, no,” came from Gail Caliber’s mouth and caused the three robbers to look up. When they did, they found Chris standing, holding the gun, and pointing it at the man in the ski mask.
    “There’s three of us dude.” Said ski mask, “Even if you get me; they’ll kill you.”
    “Chris,” Gail Caliber said. “Please honey, drop the gun before they hurt you.”
    Ski mask reached over and grabbed Gail by the hair, to yank her in front of him as a shield; he then placed his gun to her head.
    “Drop the damn gun or I’ll blow her head off!”
    A second passed, and then Chris shot ski mask between the eyes and with a blur of motion, killed the other two men. Afterward, he calmly lowered his arm and let the weapon fall to the floor.
    “Diane?”
    “Diane? We’re live.”
    “Right, yes, I apologize ladies and gentlemen, but that was without doubt one of the most shocking things you’ll ever see, but... the robbery is over and everyone is safe thanks to that... incredible marksman. I have never seen shooting like that and I was an army brat. We apologize for losing the feed, but we can only assume that our cameraman, Doug, is repositioning his equipment and—yes, yes, we have Doug back now.
    The television studio was replaced by a split second of static and then the coffee shop appeared, with Chris in the foreground, behind him, the other patrons were rushing out the door in a panic, as the sound of sirens grew closer. Standing beside Chris was his mother and Chris had his left arm draped around her shoulders. Then, the cameraman spoke as he scanned the restaurant.
    “Diane I’m here in the Pegasus Coffee House in lower Manhattan, where a wild scene just took place as a brutal robbery came to a sudden and stunning conclusion. Three armed men took me and the other patrons hostage and if not for the bravery and skill of the man in front of me, things might have turned out much different.”
    “Doug, can you tell us the condition of the man that was beaten?”
    “I’m sorry to report this Diane, but the man died from that vicious beating.”
    “And the three robbers?”
    “They are all deceased Diane; all three killed by shots fired dead center between their eyes.”
    “Incredible, absolutely incredible, but tell us, what’s our hero’s name?”
    Chris held his mother and felt her tremble as the camera panned about the scene, then, suddenly, the camera was pointed at his face, as the reporter asked a question.
    “What’s your name, sir?”
    “My name?”
    “Yes.”
    Chris stared into the camera with an unblinking gaze.
    “My name is Caliber!”

CALIBER DETECTIVE AGENCY – CASE FILE #3
    T exas, 1884
    Jake Caliber climbed upon his horse as he