David called the local Mossad resident, Doron, and asked for an emergency meeting in one hour, telling the agent to prepare for a "hot" operation after midnight. David met Doron and briefed him regarding his plan to snatch one of the senior Golden Dawn politicians and interrogate him — no holds barred — and probably have to eliminate him after that. The resident agent was not happy with the plan and said that they needed to survey the ground, make arrangements to quietly kidnap the person and bring him to an isolated place for the interrogation and suggested they do it the following night after reinforcements were sent by Mossad. David was worried about word leaking from the police or that Niko would be able to send a warning to Guido and insisted on carrying it out that same night. Doron had no choice but to obey as he had been forewarned by the Mossad chief himself to do whatever David required. He only wanted to be on record and to get David to understand that this was a breach of standard operating procedures but David repeated the importance of carrying out the operation without delay and Doron promised to cooperate fully.
David asked Doron about his assets in Athens and was told that he only had three other operatives, two involved in intelligence gathering rather than in field work and the third, Yakir, a fresh graduate of the field training course had never seen action outside Israel though he had some military experience in an elite unit of the IDF though he had never seen action outside Israel. They had three cars at their disposal; one was a closed van and the other two were regular economy size cars. They also had a couple of encrypted phones for communication purposes and their safe house was an apartment in a residential area with thin walls and many neighbors suitable at best to provide a temporary residence for an agent or two. Doron explained that they had a small yacht that was berthed in the Piraeus marina which he took out for a short trip on week-ends to help maintain his skipper's certificate. David knew that the risks of being exposed or complete failure of the mission were immense but the alternatives — postponement or cancellation — were worse. There was no time to gather information on Guido's household staff or even if he had a family, so David knew they had to find a way to call him away from the house under some pretense and hope to grab him when he was on the street. He then hit upon the idea of posing as Ollie and asking for Guido's help in an extreme emergency. When he presented Doron with the idea, and gave him some background information about the situation, he found a skeptic audience. However Doron liked the part that they would not have to break into Guido's house with so many unknown factors and trying to entice Guido to leave the villa reduced the risk of exposure considerably.
By the time they had finished discussing the details of the plan it was close to midnight. The two of them took a short drive through the neighborhood and found that there was very little traffic at that time of night. They drove to Doron's apartment where the three agents were already having a strong cup of coffee served by Doron's wife. Doron quickly introduced David who briefed them on the operational plan. The female intelligence gathering agent was dispatched to the marina to prepare the yacht and obtain permission to sail before dawn. The other intelligence agent and Doron were to take the van and wait on a quiet side street just outside Guido's villa. David and Yakir were to take one of the small cars and stage an accident near the villa's gate. The agent was to smear himself all over his face and body with red ink and pretend to be the victim of a traffic accident caused by the car driven by David. David was to make the call to Guido from his cellphone posing as Ollie and then wait over Yakir's body in the middle of the road and flag down Guido as he left the villa's grounds. As soon as Guido stopped to find out what was going on David was to neutralize him with an injection of a strong tranquillizer that was stored in Doron's refrigerator. Then they would call the van, stuff the unconscious Guido into the van driven by Doron with Yakir watching over him and drive to the marina followed by David in the small car. The intelligence agent would take Guido's car and dispose of it in a busy parking lot in the center of town and then return to his home. There were so many loopholes in this primitive plan that they all hoped that they would not end up before morning in a Greek jail, or worse.
After they were all in position David pulled out his cellphone and called Guido. When Guido answered, he sounded very angry and a bit confused at being woken up in the middle of the night. David spoke English with an imitation of what he considered a light Swedish accent, identified himself as Ollie and told Guido that he was held by a couple of police officers in Athens and they threatened to expose the "big plan". He urged Guido to come immediately to the police station near Syntagma square and release him. Guido asked to speak to the police officers holding him and David cut the connection. Fifteen minutes later, after the Israeli team had almost given up and left, they heard a car engine starting and the villa's electric gate opened slowly. A black Mercedes emerged and upon seeing the accident scene the driver stopped the car and slowly opened his window. Within a second David pounced on the open window and stuck the syringe needle into Guido's exposed neck removing the car keys from the ignition with his other hand. Guido collapsed on the steering wheel and the car's horn blasted for an instant before David pulled back Guido's unconscious body. The van driven by Doron came around by the time David and Yakir had pulled Guido out of the Mercedes and none too gently threw him onto the mattress that had been placed on the van's floor. Yakir got into the van and started cleaning himself from the red ink while Doron drove the van towards the marina. David drove the small car and followed the van while the intelligence officer got into the Mercedes and headed to a parking lot near the town center. So far the operation had gone so smoothly that David started to worry that unpleasant surprises lay ahead.
The van and the car arrived at the marina without a hitch and boarded the yacht with Guido supported by Doron and Yakir. They asked the female agent who had prepared the yacht to drive the van away from the marina and park it near her apartment. They were not worried about the economy car as it was frequently seen in the marina's parking lot whenever Doron took his yacht out for a spin. Doron carefully steered the yacht out of the marina and dropped its anchor in a shallow area a few kilometers south of the marina after making sure that no one was around. David injected Guido with adrenalin to wake him up and before he was fully conscious he put a black mask with a green banner of the Islamic State over his face and in Arabic accented English started questioning him about Ollie's visit in January. Guido was still confused and asked David and Doron who they were and they told him that they were from ISIS and pointed at Yakir who was similarly dressed with a long knife in his left hand and told Guido that he was the notorious executioner, John the Beheader, a cousin of the infamous John the Jihadist who was seen on global TV broadcasts. When Yakir grabbed his hair and exposed his neck Guido started shaking and sniveling and cried that he would tell them everything if they spared his life. Yakir appeared to be testing the sharpness of the blade and started growling in a low voice promising death to the infidels and placed the blade on Guido's neck. Guido wet himself in his pants and begged David to dismiss the executioner so that he could speak without the knife on his neck. David motioned Yakir to leave the cabin and without further prompting Guido told them everything about Ollie's visit and the plan to manufacture an improvised nuclear device to blackmail several governments to expel all foreigners. He also explained that the project was a joint venture by many nationalist and separatist movements who shared a common cause. David asked him what Ollie wanted in Greece and Guido said that he wanted more money for the project but agreed to settle with enlisting two Greek scientists instead of cash. Guido claimed that he did not know the location of the laboratory but said that they were supposed to meet with the project chief scientist, a Spanish professor Modena, in Milan. David asked who they were and Guido gave him their names and addresses. When David prompted him for more information Guido said that one of them, Panos, had a family and lived in a small villa while the other one, Stavros, was a divorced engineer who lived alone in an apartment building. David realized that Guido had no more relevant information and decided that they could spare his life as he did not pose any danger to them in their assumed ISIS identity. They blindfolded him, gave him another dose of the tranquillizer and set him ashore on a deserted beach and returned to the marina just as the sun began to rise. David, Doron and Yakir returned to Athens and arranged to meet at noon after a short rest and try and find at least one of the scientists. They were not worried that Guido would be able to warn them as they expected him to remain unconscious at least until late in the afternoon.