It was supposed to be a simple recovery operation. All Harder Security had to do was liberate a ransomed plane and fly it from Angola to anywhere else. Maybe the mistake was his insistence on being part of the operation. If he wasn't there, Phil wouldn't have known there was a crate of uncut diamonds on the plane. He wouldn't be in a position to decide to crash-land the plane at their base in Ethiopia to keep from declaring them. And the government wouldn't be forced to ask them to pack up their stuff and go. The crate of diamonds could have been the infusion he needed to grow the company. Now it seems to be the thing that will take them all down. But not without a fight.