"THE FIRST STRIKE"
GARCIA picking up ringing cell phone in her office:
Garcia: "Hey Cupcake, what's up? Are you not already here? GASP! She's not early ONE TIME!"
JJ on other line walking out her front door:
JJ: "OK Garcia, I see what you did there (laughs to herself)No but seriously, Henry decided at the last minute that his shirt was not the same color as Daddy's shirt and had a 5 year old moment."
JJ opens passenger door and sits throwing her purse in the back and closing door while still talking.
Garcia: "Well he IS five sweety."
JJ: "Yeah, well either way, I'm late! They're on their way out to the car now. I'll be there in 15 minutes."
Garcia: "Still jealous of your proximity to the office."
JJ: "House for sale right down the street…just sayin'."
Garcia: "See you soon lovebug."
JJ hangs up, glances back at WILL and HENRY walking out the front door and reaches over to start the car for Will. As it turns over, the air conditioning starts full blast, momentarily blowing a soft, white powder into the car through the vents. JJ startled quickly looks down at the trace of powder on her clothes and hands and notices a piece of paper on the floor. As she picks the card up, she sees it's some sort of stationary. Typed out on the front is:
"JENNIFER, WILLIAM, AND HENRY"
She flips over the card in a tamed panic.
"ZUGZWANG"
As JJ instantly puts together the situation, she whips back to see Will carrying Henry and reaching for the back car door handle. Thinking fast she immediately hits the door locks, locking herself in the contaminated vehicle, and locking the people she cares about most out, safely.
Will: laughing "Cher, seriously? Come on we're la.."
He stops mid-scolding as he looks at her face for the first time. She had a tell tale "panic mode" face that he knew all too well. Her big blues eyes, wide and staring straight into his. Tears watering in them, but they barely ever actually fall. He's only actually seen her cry maybe 3 times in the almost 7 years they've been together. For some reason when he looked at her today, he knew he would see it again, she was on the verge of something. He didn't know what it was or why.
Will: "JJ what's goin' on, talk to me…" he said calmly but loudly through the window glass.
He touched his hand to the glass on the outside in an effort to get her to do the same. He felt like he needed to make her feel closer to him…to comfort her.
JJ puts her hand up to his through the window, lets out a deep breath she didn't know she'd been holding, and holds up the side of the note that says "ZUGZWANG". As she pulls her hand away from the window, there is a light white residue of powder from her fingers.
Will stares into her eyes, she can't figure out what he was feeling, it was a toss up between rage, understanding, and blind fear. He stood up and said simply:
Will: "What do we do?"
JJ holds up her cell phone and hits the speed dial, while yelling to Will:
JJ: "Get him inside! Don't touch ANYTHING!"
