> The Legion have legal status with the UN and the US. We've named both pieces of legislation before but I'm too lazy to look them up. Hatty used to be the liaison between the LL and the armed forces and law enforcement. He's not a vigilante because the LL are licensed to uphold the law.
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Maybe so, but even police officers, military, etc, have certain "rules" they have to obey or risk being prosecuted. At any time, just like when the press finds a soldier scapegoat in Iraq, the Lair Legion could randomly be prosecuted for some perceived violation at the whim of some politician or the press.
> I'm responding to your original point that there's a possible plot where the authorities come after Chiaki, spitballing ways you could make it happen. I don't have any vested interest in crafting an impossible-to-escape trap for her.
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They can come after Chiaki but they won't find her. Part of Chiaki's mystery is her ability to stay one step ahead.  If the government decides to locate her she'll suddenly become difficult to locate.
> > They could try to ask her questions.  Then they'd have the problem of her being perfectly cooperative and answering every question honestly.  She has nothing to hide.  Of course it would be risky because Japan is a U.S. ally, so they'd have to have some pretense besides that she's Japanese.
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> Guantanamo Bay is so careful of foreign citizens' rights.
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Guatanamo Bay is a prisoner-of-war camp.  It would look bad politically to send a citizen of an allied country there.  The biggest risk Chiaki would have is for deportation and extradition but they'd need some serious charges to make it stick.  So far she hasn't broken enough laws.
> > Lara wouldn't buy a hot dog from a hot dog vendor, she knows how they make those.  :)  She might grab a coffee, but her movements are so random (she's not likely to, say, have breakfast at the same cafe every morning) it's difficult to predict where she'll go next.  And she always seems to know when she's being followed.ÂÂ
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> Again, I'm only suggesting means by which you might bring about the storyline you were imagining. Like so many plots, it just depends on which way you want events to unfold.
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In that case the best way to trap her is to earn her trust first and get her to go willingly.  She can be a little too trusting sometimes.  The only problem is it's like trying to bottle a tornado - if she figures it out too early, and she can be really smart, they can look forward to one destroyed secret hideout.
> > Lara is going to be there less often.  Remember, she can go from her home to the mansion like most people walk next door to borrow sugar, so she might be there one minute and gone the next.
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> I suspect the Legion may have some precaution against that happening, because if Lara can do it so can some of the bad guys.
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Lara (and Liu Xi too) would have bad news for them; bad guys can do it too, and there really isn't much they can do to stop it besides vigilance.  In their favor, though, any bad guy who tries it would be seriously outnumbered.
Besides, even if the Legion blocks her from appearing in the mansion so easily she'd just appear outside it instead.  The stunulators are tired of burning themselves out trying to stop a master of energy anyway.
