blah blah AU timeline shit (totally just gonna mentally retcon Sly 4) where Sly and Carmelita come to a mutual agreement to feign his amnesia; she has some shady-ass ties with Chief Barkley who then rolls with the coverup cos they can use Sly's TALENTS in Interpol (cos they totally recruited Neyla for her skills in persuasion after explicitly learning that she'd scammed her way through a fucking college so WHY NOT)

just furry noir shit hello i like sly cooper