I looked at Rivers, "How am I doing so far?"
He nodded, "Perfect."
I resumed, "So, while you're in Berlin holding down the fort, Hall and Schmidt decide that cutting the gold two ways is better than cutting it three ways, so they promptly cut you out. Only now you have no idea where they've gone with the gold. You've already resigned from the Army so you have no infrastructure to try and track them down. Still on the right track?"
Rivers said, "Spot on, Jake."
"So, you needed a patsy. Someone to do the dirty work of finding them..."