Well, it does tend to be the nature of gangsters to not give up just because they had some setbacks... but then, the ones in my world might've had some more elaborate and less silly plans. It's hard to imagine the Awakusu operating like that for example...

[ But then, maybe Team Rocket and the Awakusu aren't a one to one analogy, despite what he heard from Silver. But at the same time... oh, wait a minute: ]

So wait, are these the same agents, you're running into over and over?