I Smell a Rat

"Bentley: Look, we're only going to get one shot at this, so we can't mess up! Sly: Alright, no messing up allowed. Now stop worrying! This is gonna be a piece of cake."

- Before the heist

"I Smell a Rat" was a job for Sly Cooper, Bentley and Murray in the prologue of Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time.

Background
With the Cooper Gang reunited, they planned to pull off a heist that involved breaking into a museum in Paris to find a 17th-century samurai dagger that would help them travel back in time.

Synopsis
After Bentley regrouped the gang and explained the situation to them, they arrived at the museum to begin the heist. The trio exited the Cooper Van and took their posts as planned—Sly to the roof, Bentley to the sewers beneath and Murray to the back alley.

Sly was the one to commence the operation by running along the rooftops while encountering several security choppers. As he walked across a rope connecting two buildings, he spotted Murray riding on the top of a truck and questioned whether that was part of Murray's entrance strategy. However, Bentley had no idea what Sly was talking about, stating that Murray's approach route was through the back alley. Sly, seeing that Murray had made it to his planned position anyway, continued on.

After a close call with a security chopper, Sly approached a wire that led directly to the roof. He used his cane to zip-line across the wire, allowing him to access a pole on the side of the museum. As Sly ascended the pole, it bent under his weight and tipped over. However, it was stopped by the edge of the building. Bentley advised Sly to find another way to the roof. While making his way around the side of the museum, Sly passed by the window of a room where an unknown figure and two others were talking. Sly then climbed to the roof of the museum.

Sly then had to head for the skylight on the roof, which was guarded by a rat trooper guard. This provided Sly with the opportunity to pull off an act of pickpocketing. After stealing the key from the guard and stealth killing him, Sly used the key to unlock the skylight. This was where he would be able to drop down and retrieve the dagger, which was in the room right below. However, Bentley needed to shut off the security surrounding the artifact.

Underground, Bentley was informed that Sly was in position by the skylight and proceeded to make his way through the sewers, bombing various pieces of machinery blocking his path and jumping across several gaps. Eventually, he found the entrance to the museum's security system. He bombed it and jumped through, barely stopping himself above a laser grid. He swung himself over the grid and reached the security control center. After dealing with the guards keeping watch, Bentley hacked into the museum's database and opened the museum's gate, that way Murray could proceed with his task.

Murray entered the museum grounds and was immediately attacked by guards. He used his mighty strength to quickly dispose of each one and reached the museum's warehouse. As he enters, he found a single guard waiting for him. Suddenly, the door to the warehouse closed behind him, and several guards came out and pounced on him, tackling him to the ground. Though the guards seemed to be overpowering him for a moment, Murray was able to shake all the guards off of him in one swing, taking them all out in the process. His task here was to destroy the junction boxes connected to the security system. Once that was done, Bentley was able to shut down the security surrounding the samurai dagger.

Sly dropped through the skylight and stole the dagger, leaving a calling card in its place. As he was about to exit, an angry Carmelita Fox barged into the room. Seeing that Sly had seemingly turned back to his old ways, Carmelita attempted to capture him but failed as usual. Sly quickly made his way back to the van where Bentley and Murray were waiting. As they made their escape, they were surrounded by several security vehicles. After driving furiously through the museum garden, they used a ramp to drive over the fence and onto the street. Before they could make the final escape through time, Bentley told Sly to place the dagger into the receptacle. Once done, Murray punched the pedal, and the gang drove off and disappeared in plain sight, leaving for Feudal Japan.