- "Otto, sending you new pickup location."
- ―Jakob Toretto
The Recovery of Project Aries was an unsuccessful mission undertaken by Jakob Toretto to recover the second half of Project Aries from a chapel in Edinburgh.
Background[]
After recovering an old computer from Mr. Nobody's plane, Jakob gives it to Cipher and asks her to recover the location of the second half of Project Aries. She tracks it down in Edinburgh and warns Jakob that, with Dom now being involved, he has no chance of coming out of this alive.
Dom meets with Buddy Hubbard, an old member of his father's pit crew who took in Jakob after their father's death, who tells him that Jakob is in London. With the help of an old friend, Leysa, Dom is able to get Jakob's gun with have his biometrics in them and Ramsey uses it to track down Jakob in Edinburgh. She is soon joined by Roman and Tej who have returned from Cologne after meeting with Dom's connections from Tokyo.
Recovery[]
Whilst in Edinburgh, Ramsey tracks Jakob's biometrics to a chapel and soon discovers that security systems in the area are being shutdown. On a hunch, Roman approaches two delivery guys and knocks them out. After Tej's necklace is magnetically forced off his neck they discover the back of the delivery truck contains a large magnet which is the cause of the security systems being shutdown. They are captured by Jakob's guards and Ramsey is forced to hijack the truck, her first driving venture, and she chases after Otto who is fleeing in his Jaguar XE SV Project 8 whilst Tej and Roman fight the guards in the back of the truck.
Dom chases Jakob, in his 1968 Dodge Charger, who is zip-lining from building to building and he eventually catches him and throws him into a building where the two fight. Jakob jumps out of a window onto a bus and Dom follows him but Jakob is able to evade him by jumping onto a passing truck. Dom chases after Jakob and tackles him to the ground where their fall is broken by Ramsey's truck. Ramsey runs Otto off the road and Jakob steals a 2012 Toyota GT86 and tries to run.
Dom joins the others in the truck and Ramsey chases after Jakob and uses the magnet in the truck to trap Jakob where they take him back to their safe house. In anger, Otto drives off to return to his Base of Operations.
Aftermath[]
Dom, Ramsey, Tej and Roman took Jakob to their safe house and locked him in a cell. They were then joined by Letty and Mia who returned from Tokyo with Elle Lue and a still alive Han Seoul-Oh. Meanwhile, Otto returned to his base of operations and was mocked by Cipher for failing, making an allusion to Yoda from Star Wars. It was this that covinced Otto to turn against Jakob and work with Cipher instead.