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Work was boring today. So I scribbled more stuff for that awesome "Alternate Sly 4 & 5" outline that earthstar_moon and gullwhacker came up with! :)

First up is my idea for how Carmelita and Penelope become a team and why Carmelita ends up turning on Sly (and leaving behind her beloved law enforcement career).

Basically, my idea is that Sly catches Penelope in Holland not long after she starts the Black Baron con job. Penelope ends up getting stuck with all the blame for the dirty tricks the pilots pulled while competing in "The Baron's" competition. And because Penelope had the bad luck to turn 18 just before she was caught, Sly decides to make an example of her my meting out an extreme punishment in the hopes that her suffering will serve as a deterrent.

My other idea is that Penelope is still underage when she's arrested (probably about 16), but Sly decides to start instituting harsher sentences for juvenile offenders because he believes it will reduce juvenile crime. And he decides to make a public example of Penelope because of the fame/notoriety of "The Black Baron" despite knowing that she wasn't responsible for most of the unlawful things that happened when she was posing as The Baron. Carmelita tries to reason with him and other Interpol superiors, but it doesn't do any good.
Seeing Penelope's mistreatment triggers Carmelita's first loss of faith in the justice system. And it ends up being the straw that breaks the camel's back and prompts her to go rogue.