This one I was running. I'm not sure if it is my favourite, but it's a good one and I'm struggling to pick a favourite. Plus, it's relatively short.
Mr Johnson hired the team to make a delivery. Simple thing: take a package, untampered, unopened, and deliver it to the live in manager of a factory in Redmond. Said factory manufacturers armour worn by Knight Errant, so it's well guarded and Mr Johnson would prefer the package not be checked by security, or even seen by them. The party all assumes they're delivering drugs, no big deal. Easy money. Johnson is offering good money, too.
More veteran runners might have called the money "too good to be true" but, hey, Mr Johnson had bought dinner and paid some money upfront and even gave them some handy advice: there's a construction site next to the factory that will be empty, dark, and unguarded at night. It'll probably be easy for them to jump the fence from there.
So off they go and, following Mr Johnson's advice, they decide to sneak into the construction site. But not before they do a little tampering. A quick scan of the package reveals a GPS tracker. Well, makes sense. Got to make sure the drugs make it to the guy. So, the sam and infiltrator get into position by the fence, in the shadows. The decker scopes things out on the Matrix and gets a good lay of the digital land, even picking out where the recipient is: top floor. There's a lot of KE on patrol, though. The rigger sends in some fly spies for physical recon. Confirms guard numbers, and even gets inside and finds their target sitting on a bed in his modest living quarters, playing with his commlink. In doing so, he even finds the best and sneakiest way into the building: up the wall, through a window, down the hall. But maybe it'd be even easier to bring him to the window and chuck him his drugs.
The decker decides to hack into his commlink and leave a note. Less traceable than calling and saying "Hey, your drugs are outside." So she decks away, while everybody watches the factory manager through the fly spy's video broadcast. The decker gets through, opens up a note file and begins typing a message. The manager panics and throws his commlink across the room in fear.
Well, that didn't work. So, the rigger decides maybe he'll pay more attention to the drone, or at least try and shoo it out the window. So he buzzes over to the manager's face and tries to communicate. The manager screams and calls for security. The rigger buzzes back to the window.
Finally, the infiltrator decides to give it a go. Like a pro, he jumps the fence, runs between petrols, scales the walls, cuts through the window, and sneaks down the hall. He hears the manager talking to a knight, and finds a place to hide when the knight comes through the door to check for drones. The infiltrator takes his opening, pops through the door and says "Delivery!" and tosses the package at him. Manager screams again, knight comes rushing back, infiltrator slips into another shadow as the knight rushes past. The way is clear, the infiltrator runs, leaps out the window.
The third floor of the factory explodes. The infiltrator regroups with the sam and they rush back to the van. Suddenly, a Lone Star patrol car crashes through the fence and the bronze are on them, guns out. Back at the crew's van, another Lone Star patrol pulls up and calls for surrenders. Naturally, a fire fight ensues, cars are exploded, getaways are made. They head back to Mr Johnson for the rest of their payment and find the meeting place is swarming with Lone Star, too. They drive casual and move on.
And this is how the team became entangled in a scheme by Lone Star to discredit Knight Errant and win back the Seattle police contract. Unfortunately for them, their roll in this scheme was "loose ends".