Lenel had to wait in a public place Franco instructions said, three hundred meters from Casa Milà, to receive a message from the hitman. Then he had to go to Bolt’s apartment, find a yellow pendrive, and give it to Franco at Ronald’s funeral. He could not copy or read it. Lenel followed the orders precisely, seeing them as his chance to seize global power in The Family. He could not betray Franco because he knew they were watching.

Lenel never knew that on the day of Ronald’s funeral, Franco, a little earlier, went alone to Casa Milà. He waited for the hitman Lenel had hired, knowing him at a glance: Piero Santini. Disguised as an electrician in jockey and calypso overalls, Franco pointed a silenced pistol at him, led him to Bolt’s apartment, and shot both men in the head. They fell lifeless. Wearing gloves, Franco placed the hitman’s gun in Bolt’s hands to mark his fingerprints.

He collected all pendrives and memory devices from Bolt’s computers. Then, with careful precision, he kicked the bodies, destroyed furniture, and arranged valuables to fabricate a robbery gone wrong. Finally, he placed a yellow pendrive between the corpses, easy for Lenel to see. Checking the scene one last time, he thought, Important things you always do with your own hands. He had learned it from his father, he from his grandfather, and ancestors.

Using the hitman’s phone, Franco texted Lenel: “Mission accomplished, now you can come.” Lenel arrived, saw an electrician leaving in calypso overalls, and did not recognize Franco. He found the apartment door ajar, entered carefully, avoiding blood puddles, retrieved the yellow pendrive that Franco putted in the floor, wiped the fingerprints, and left.

He headed to the funeral. The pendrive was his passport to power. He imagined becoming head of The Family worldwide.

Franco, still in disguise with overalls and a jockey, walked three blocks to a café, changed clothes in the bathroom, and called his driver-bodyguard. He left unnoticed, took the limo, and changed into formal attire for the cemetery. In the limo’s safe, he stored the Bolt pendrive and devices. A cell-phone alert would detonate a bomb if anyone tried to open it.