completed his training and Polgas assigns him his first mission: to stake out a certain coconut vendor. He begins to complain, but takes the mission dossier anyway after Polgas offered him another training session with Presas regarding how to block a kris sword. Bab's first day sees him indirectly looking at the coconut vendor via a reflection in a heavily tinted window. However, an Ilocano-speaking security guard accosts him and they begin an informal conversation about the rigours of the job. It is revealed that the window Bab looked at was that of a bank. Unknown to both of them, a robbery was already in progress. Disappointed with the outcome of the initial surveillance, Bab goes home, changes clothes, and turns on the television just as a news program comes on air. He does not pay attention, as the show reports a robbery at the same bank where he chatted with the security guard. Worse, the guard himself has been arrested as a suspected accomplice. Bab then embarks on the second day of the stake out. The danger of discovery forces him to watch on the vendor from inside a restaurant, which is located across the street from the bank. He orders a drink and goes under the table to get a bag of cashew nuts to keep him busy. However, just as he is getting the food, two people suddenly occupy his table. One of them, Brawlio, boasts about how easy it was to rob the bank with the help of the second man, branch manager Jimmy Tontolino. Bab looks on as Brawlio gives Tontolino a black bag containing his PHP 2.5-million share of the PHP 8-million loot under the table. That night, an incensed Tontolino calls Brawlio about the contents of the bag given to him. It is revealed that Bab switched the bags during the covert exchange, allowing him to bring home the money and for Tontolino to get his gear instead. Elated at having acquired such a massive pile of money, Bab boasts that he could buy a BMW with all the cash - and changes it to VW when Polgas suddenly appears to debrief him. After he is told everything that happened in the past two days (and catches Bab trying to pocket some of the money as one pile disappears), Polgas hatches a plan to attract the robbers' attention. Bab will come to the