The Disillusionists cont'd...

Mike sat at a desk in a lab hidden deep in the basement of his house. Wearing surgical gloves and a magnifying visor, he took Gunther's driver's licence out of a wallet and scanned both sides of it into a computer. Using a template, he transferred the information from the original onto a blank and then cropped a suitable picture of himself in the appropriate spot. He printed copies of both sides and then, using precision instruments, cut away the area where the magnetic strip sat on the back of the new licence.

With skills gleaned over many years of creative fund-raising, Mike then applied a mild solvent to the original, removing the plastic coating. He carefully timed this manuever so as to not marr the original. He then scimmed the strip off of the licence with a surgical plane and gently placed it in the appropriate spot on his creation. He then replaced the original's strip with a blank, which would merely appear to be malfunctioning. Mike fixed the two sides of his copy together, trimmed it to regulation size, signed it electronically and then, with painstaking accuracy, transferred a watermark decal from another, unknown licence, to the front of the document.

He then ran it through a laminator, trimmed away the excess and tested it on an M.O.T. link he had borrowed from a friend. "Jesus. This idiot can't drive worth shit." Mike said to himself as he viewed Gunther's sordid driving record. He held the forgery up to the light and angled it to catch all the details. Rubbing it with 1000 grit wet sandpaper to dull the gloss, he then eased off the corners with a scalpel. Finally, he walked on it a few times and threw it in the dryer to give it "character" and then slipped it into his own wallet and stood on it to give it "shape".

Satisfied with his handiwork, he repaired the surface of the original and put it back into it's wallet. He then looked for a charge card and could not find one. "Fuck". He sat for a while and reconfigured his plan... He would have to make an alternative card for Alexis and bring her along for procurements. It would up the stakes but it was too late to turn back now...