MALFUNCTION- Season 4, Episode 13
Prologue
Steve cast a worried, anxious look at his wife. She was taking far too long to open that safe! Then he saw Jaime wince in pain - and his mind began to scramble through their options...which were slim to none. They had such a small time frame to get into the safe and back out, down that long hallway, before it began filling up with armed guards who had likely already been alerted to their presence. Unlike the mission that had gone bad (years ago) at the Wrona estate, there was no window to jump out of to make an escape. If they failed - or if they took too long - they were trapped. And they were done.
Jaime's left hand shot to her forehead, trying to massage the pain from her temples as she concentrated harder on listening to the tumblers. She cracked the safe and Steve used his eye to reach in among the otherwise invisible booby-traps to retrieve the stolen codes. They hit the hallway seconds too late, moving at bionic speed as gunfire erupted behind them. Their pick-up chopper very nearly missed them, as they'd come out so fast...and so late.
When they were finally safely aboard, Steve turned to Jaime with cold fear in his eyes. (Terrorists with guns didn't scare him...but something potentially wrong with his wife terrified the hell out of him!) She sat with her head back against the wall of the chopper, her eyes screwed shut, obviously still in pain. It had been their first mission after more than six weeks of recuperation from their respective surgeries and should've been simple and straightforward - in and out. They'd both been cleared by Rudy and by their individual doctors - Doctor Kyle (the thoracic man) for Steve and Michael for Jaime. Given their abilities, there had seemed to be no possibility that anything could go wrong except...it had.
''Sweetheart...'' Steve began quietly, ''what happened in there?''