"Why did you send agent Adam to bring me here, Harold?" Reddington wondered as he stepped out of the elevator into the post office with the brunette female agent and Dembe. "I thought I made myself clear when I said I speak only with Agent Keen."
Cooper nodded his head to the agent who took the hand cuffs from back of her jeans and started to put them around Reddington's wrists. Dembe moved fast towards his boss, before he was caught by two strong soldiers of the force, while other two showed from nowhere, pointing their weapons towards Red and Dembe. Red looked at her astonished, then back at Cooper, "What the hell is going on, Cooper?"
Cooper motioned towards them, "You are in protective custody. We had traced a phone call regarding a trial of your assassination."
The brunette agent continued after Cooper, "There's a prize on your head, Reddignton."
Red looked at her, "There's always a prize on my head, Agent Adam"
She looked into his eyes, "Anzlo Garrick? Does that name sound familiar to you?"
He looked at her with wide eyes, then looked back to Cooper, "If Anzlo Garrick leaked these information to you on purpose, then it's a scam."
Before agent Malik starts to explain, Red started himself to explain how dangerous Garrick is, how he usually gets his victims and their history together.
Red said in trustful voice, "Harold, your black site is about to be breached."
Just after he's finished his words, all lights and computers went off. They all looked at each other hearing Reddington, "They're in."
Agents Adam and Malik looked at Cooper who said, "Initiate all facility lock up."
One of the employers tried to dial the desk phone fast, before she declares, "Telecom. is dead, I have no signal."
Red looked at Adam, "Get me out if these damned cuffs, Agent Adam." She held his arm dragging him with her out of the room, "You're going to the cage, till the threat is neutralized." Red replied in non-patience, "Threat neutralized?! Cooper, this is non sense, get your people out of here before it's too late." He moved with Adam as they heard Cooper ordering evacuation.
Red moved in front of Adam directing to his cage, "I don't think any of you appreciate the fire power that has just entered the building..."
She cut him off nervously, "Shut up, Reddington."
He went on as if he never heard her, "He is here to get me Agent Adam, and he'll shot everyone in his way. Your fire arm will not really help, especially as you're not half trained as these mercenaries. You are a computer scientist."
This time she cut him off by pushing him against the wall, as they heard nearby sounds coming from the other end of the corridor. She pointed her side arm towards the sound with her two hands. He asked her with calm and lower voice, "Why don't you let them take me, Maya? After all I'm a criminal and they will eventually kill me." She looked at him with angry eyes and firm voice still low, "You are a good informant to the FBI now, Reddington. My job is to protect you. And I'll accomplish my mission, whatever the price is and even I'm not convinced with it, I'll fight for your life as much as I can."
In a second, she saw one of Garrick's men pointing his weapon at them, so she fired hers fast to hit him, while Red bent down to avoid the shot, before another one coming out of a side-way shot her in her thigh, so she screamed and fell down to the floor holding her leg, with her gun still in her other hand shooting the guy. She rolled over herself moaning in pain. Red approached her taking the keys out of her pocket trying to free himself from his hand cuffs. He took the gun out of her hand then shot the other two guys coming from the other side, before he gets a grenade from the mercenary's belt and threw it towards them and glides down back towards Adam. Adam didn't stop moaning as she watched him taking the weapon belt of the dead one next to her and his ammo, getting ready to go. She yelled at him, "Don't, Reddington, don't leave me here alone without my gun." He looked at her, "You and I are not done yet, Adam."
He bent to get her of the floor supporting her with his arm. She cried in pain when she tried to walk beside him, so she had to let him hold her waist to support her on their way to the cage. There, she entered the pass code to open the cage as Red broke the first aid box at the wall and got the first aids he needs. Maya limped till she reached inside the cage before she falls again onto the ground. She called him as the cage door started to close. He was busy shooting the other guys came after them, so he took steps back till he got in and the door got closed and locked with him and Maya trapped inside.
In a moment a few of the mercenaries were inside the room spreading around the cage. One of them approached then took his mask off of his mutated face, "Hello Red."
Red looked at him angrily then ignored him to help Adam get off the ground and lay her down on the bench while she was trying not to moan with every movement of her leg. He took off his jacket and made a pillow of it to rest her head on it. He heard Anzlo talking to him, but he totally ignored him and began to check her wound then he put the dressing on it trying to stop the bleeding and avoid wound contamination, wrapped a bandage around her thigh while she's still moaning in pain. She heard Anzlo threatening Red of what he will do to him when he captures him. That made her get scared . She looked at Red worried with her eyes full of tears of pain and fear, she was amazed how he doesn't care about any of what his enemy was saying.
Red finished his work then looked at her and sighed in relief noticing the look in her eyes. He moved his head slowly towards Anzlo listening to his vows of torturing him to death. Then he sat on the chair next to the bench Maya is lying on approaching her face. He touched her cheek with back of his hand to find it cold so he asked, while unbuttoning the upper two buttons of her blouse, "How do you feel? Your extremities, you feel of them?" He asked worried, so she answered panting with low voice, "Not much, I feel so cold."
Red pursed his lips then took his jacket from beneath her head to cover her so she might feel warmer, "You're going into shock, you've lost a lot of blood." He took off his tie and wrapped it around her thigh above the level of wound, "Put the collar of your blouse in your mouth and bite it hard, this is going to hurt badly."
She did as he said screaming, as he made it tighter to decrease the blood supply to her limb so decrease the blood loss. He looked at her with eyes full of worry as he was doing it, till he ended and she totally collapsed to the bench. He moved the collar out of her mouth asking, "Are you all right?"
She didn't answer instantly but breathed deeply in pain and nodded her head. He held her hand and put it to the wound, "Keep pressure on it." Again she nodded and did as he said. He checked her pulse listening to Garrick who was still speaking, "I don't think she has a chance, Red. The only thing you can do to save her life is to surrender and get out of that box." He continued, "Does she even deserve your effort, Red? You know she was the main reason they got your location in Brussels 09? And that she participated herself in your hunt that time although she's not even a field agent?"
Red sighed and looked at her face, before looking back to Garrick who said, "And now you can despair or end her life, how sarcastic?" Maya swallowed hardly and looked at Red expecting, hearing his words, "You know the real sarcasm here Anzlo is how much you hate me and that you remember me each time you look at your face in a mirror. I'm surprised, with your access to the top plastic surgeons you never tried to fix your horrific scar!"
Maya listened to the two of them arguing about their history together with Red checking her out every while. Eventually he sat back next to her smiling, "Maya, now I'm going to test your luck and you better pass it, what's your blood type?"
She answered weakly, "B positive."
He laughed, "And I thought you have bad luck to be here today?"
She asked huskily, "What are you doing?"
He answered seriously, "You need blood transfusion, or you will have to open that door which likely will be the end of both of us." He was talking while he was moving her sleeve up and wrapping a tourniquet around her arm before inserting the butterfly needle into her vein and do the same to his arm connecting them with the tube.
She looked at his blood streaming inside the tube into her body not believing he's really doing this, "Why don't you just let me die? Why are you trying to save my life that hard? Especially after what he said about Brussels."
He answered her simply, "I'm saving you because this is what you do when someone is dying in front of you. And I knew about Brussels. Allies today, enemies tomorrow. The world is a complicated place and I understand, loyalty changes." He watched her face as the blood is moving in the tube.
Anzlo spoke again, "Red, you know this leg is ended, it will rotten, or Maya as a whole will, when your poisoned blood gets into her body, you will die dear, Maya with each drip." She looked at Red with tearful eyes, "Shut him up, please."
He tilted his head and looked at her in sympathy, "May I ask you about something and take no offence?"
She panted in pain, "You know it will offence me, Reddington. Ask."
He narrowed his eyes asking curious, "Why are you alone till now?"
She wondered, "What do you mean?"
He asked, "You are a pretty, smart lady with a brilliant job, you are 32 and still not married or engaged? You don't even have a boyfriend and never had one since you've come to the States ten years ago, how that comes?"
She smiled bitterly, "I'm Arab and Muslim, Reddington, I have to marry only Muslim men and unfortunately I don't meet them much in my career. And even I met a few of them along those ten years, I was not really interested or attracted to any of them."
He looked at her amazed, "Are you really still virgin?!"
Her face blushed despite the blood loss and she nodded her head hesitated. He tilted his head to the right and smiled to her in amuse, "God, I've never slept with a virgin, despite of all my relationships."
She smiled bitterly again, "I'm afraid we mostly won't get through out of this so you can try it." He looked around them then back to her, "I don't know, I've been through worse, I think we will." He started to disconnect the tube and needles out of their arms.
In a moment, two of Garrick's men were in, escorting Cooper with their weapons pointed at him. She listened to him arguing with Cooper to open the box before Anzlo pointed his own gun to Harold's head. Red stands of his chair approaching the door, "There you go again, Anzlo, using a pistol in a place of a brain. Are you really going to put a bullet in the head of the man who can handle you mine?"
Anzlo replied with his gun still at Cooper's head, "It seems someone is trying to safe your head."
Red laughed sarcastically, "Of course not, but if you kill this man, unfortunately you won't get the prize you're here for..." He was cut of this time by a painful cry coming from Maya, so he turned around quickly and moved towards her to check her.
He heard Garrick, "You're wrong this time, Red. The question is, how long will you hold on inside this box? How long will Agent Adam hold on before her limb get rotten? How long will she survive? How many people will die here today to get you out, Reddington? "
He finished his words then waved to his people who moved out of the room.
"What's happening?" Maya asked huskily, so Red answered, "Your heart is beating harder to compensate the blood loss. That bullet must have partially ruptured your femoral artery. I need to close that artery before you bleed out."
She asked worried, "How would you close it?"
He looked at her for a moment, before he cuts her trousers more widely at site of wound and begins to handle the first aids and bullets he has again, "I'll have to cut your leg and spread some inflammable gun powder on the hole, then I'm going to ignite it."
She shook her head not believing, "No, you're not."
He starred at her and spoke firmly, "Maya, if you're not going to tell them how to open that damned door, I have to do this, or you will die."
She looked at him with her terrified tears running on her temples, then nodded, "Then do it."
He examined her face with caring eyes, before he begins to pour some alcohol on a knife from the belt with him, "Put your collar into your mouth and hold firmly on the edge of the bench. I'm going to cut it as fast as I can."
He looked back into her eyes, "But once I start, you cannot stop me. You got that?"
She did as he said and nodded again. He poured the alcohol on her wound, "This is going to hurt. Hold still. It's going to be over in a second."
She screamed as the burning liquid touched her tissue and continued crying as he cuts her thigh by the knife, before she passed out because of the pain. He continued his work fast without even looking at her again, emptied a riffle's bullet on the wound then stood up to light a stick of match and begin cauterizing the wound.
Just as he finished he heard steps coming into the room. He turned to find Garrick's men getting in with Luli, Dembe, and others. Garrick held Luli, whose hands were tied behind her back and was crying. He pushed her towards the closed door, "Ten seconds, Red."
Red panicked, "Wait. Harold, open the box."
Anzlo started counting down while Cooper didn't move a muscle. So Red yelled at him, "Give him the damned code." Cooper said, no.
Garrick continued counting and Red kept shouting, "Garrick, my people can help you, Cooper can open it. Point that gun to his head. For once in your life start thinking with..." He was cut off by the bullet getting into her head and her head exploding on the glass just in front of him. He stepped back horrified and not believing. He looked at Garrick then at Cooper, before turning around approaching Adam who was still unconscious. He pulled the collar out of her mouth and checked her pulse. He gave Cooper a hate look before looking back at Adam's face. He sat down again and began to put the dressing on her wound again with a sad sigh.
Garrick ordered his people who brought Dembe beside Luli's dead body then yelled, "Red, you got the game now. I'll start counting down. You open that box, or Dembe dies."
Red shouted, "Harold, tell him." As he got silence from Cooper he got up approaching the door. Dembe put his hand on the glass, "It's okay, brother."
Red remembered, "Wait, Adam knows the code." He moved towards her calling her to wake her up as Garrick replied, "I'm not waiting, Red. People are dying here."
Red held her face yelling at her again, "Adam, get up, Adam, Maya..."
Garrick started counting and Dembe called him, "Raymond, Raymond..."
He looked at him in anger so Dembe said, "Our friendship continued in this life and will in another life. Goodbye, my brother."
Red approached him, put his hand on the glass door too and got on his knees with eyes full of pain, " Salam ya akhy."
He closed his eyes refusing to see the head of his lifetime friend exploding as Luli's. He heard the sound of the shot.
He opened his eyes after the sound to find his friend still kneeling on the other side of the box and Garrick yelling at his men to go and figure out the source of that sound. A moment later, he's seen the two men getting in with Elizabeth and Aram captured with their hands tied behind them.
He pursed his lips for the non pleasant surprise. Garrick spoke, "So, who would be next? Someone you know, Red?"
He waved to his men who moved Dembe and Luli's body away bringing Liz in their place. Red looked at her scared before rushing to Adam, "Adam... "
When Maya didn't respond he pressed deeply into her wound with his finger, so she waked up screaming of pain. He held her face, "Adam, what's the code?"
She looked at him not understanding, "What code?"
He yelled at her, "The code for the box. He's got Elizabeth. Your friend is going to die. You need to tell me the damned code right now."
Cooper yelled, "Don't give him the code, Agent Adam. That's an order."
She looked at Liz who shook her head to her to not to give him the code. She looked at the gun pointed at Liz head and swallowed before looking back to Red confused. He got her gun and loaded it before pointing it to her head.
She asked him huskily, "What are you doing? Are you going to kill me? You've just saved my life!"
Red replied with indifference, "Circumstances changed, Maya. I'm not letting her die."
He put the gun into her temple, "Agent Keen is going to die as Luli did, Adam. Now is the time."
She breathed deeply before answering, "Romeo. The code is Romeo."
She saw him heading back towards the door, before she passes out again.