Bringing your laptop with you, you begin to case out the McGragle house. It's a nice three story affair with a high wooden privacy fence. You do lots of internet research for your project while you watch the place to learn his patterns.
A couple of weeks of this, and you learn that he is seldom home, and if he is home, then a handful of sportscars and SUVs will be there too. You know he has an alarm set up, and a mean looking pit bull named Biscuitballs.