"Was that really necessary?! It wasn't Carly's or Michael's fault the airport was shot up!" Craig heard, looked and saw K8lynn.
"Finally crawled out of Trevor's bed long enough to say hello to your old pal?" Craig asks sarcastically.
"One time! Only once, I slept with him before I went to prison! Sam called, said Misty was shot! Focus on your sister and not other people!" K8lynn yells, startling Craig with how loud she yelled before they leave.
Back at the hospital, Trevor walked in to check on Carly, who was being held by Johnny.
"Anything on Misty, Trevor?" Johnny asks.
"Well, that's what I came in here to talk about… she's out of surgery and in the recovery room." Trevor says.
Carly, aside from blinking, didn't really respond. She was still angry about everything that had happened and flinched when Trevor tried to touch her, moving closer to Johnny out of instinct.
"Craig lost it, just… started insulting her and Michael." Johnny says.
"His sister was nearly killed, don't take it-" Trevor says.
"Your attitude rubbed off on him! Sam told me that before Craig and Rys met you that Craig rarely raised his voice to anyone!" Carly snaps at Trevor, Johnny taking Carly out of the room.
Misty was opening her eyes and looked, seeing Michael.
"Is… is Immy okay?" Misty asks as she squeezed Michael's hand.
"Yeah, she's in the waiting room with Sam… you scared the hell out of me." Michael says.
Carly and Johnny decided to let them talk, Carly carefully walking to the vending machine. She was still shaken up… to the point where she turned around and swung at Jack, her fist slamming into his right eye socket when he snuck up on her, Jack falling to the floor.
"Sorry, Jack. Day from hell." Carly says, helping Jack up to his feet.
"I heard what happened, Lester let me know… I saw Misty's file, one of the bullets was very close to her artery. An inch to the left, she'd be dead… but she's not, she's alive." Jack says.
"Fucking psychopaths…" Carly says, Jack seeing the stitches in Carly's left ankle. "Beforehand, one of them tried to immobilize me by knocking me down and shooting my ankle." She says, unaware that Craig heard her.
"You could've stopped this if you had killed them!" Craig says, Carly turning to face him.
"I had no idea what they were doing! I thought they were gang members trying to outrun a shootout!" Carly says, yelling halfway through as Johnny ran over, pulling Craig away from Carly.
"Back off of her, it isn't her fault, Michael's or anyone we know, you pint sized prick!" Johnny shouts, standing in front of Carly as K8lynn ran over to them.
"Craig, I brought you here to see Misty, not to pick a fight!" K8lynn says, trying to restrain Craig.
"Did Lester manage to track down these fuckers?" Carly whispers to Jack after pulling him aside.
"From the footage, he identified the leader and from there, identified the other 4… they're 5 of a group of people who, putting it shortly and basically, want Russia back the way it was. They believe that… Russia is too influenced by the west, and apparently, as they put it, their so called leaders destroyed their economies, their culture, their honor… and they're hell bent on either getting Russia back or throwing us all into a second Cold War… but not so cold this time." Jack says.
"They do remember that Reagan was the one who was influential in tearing the wall down, right?" Carly says.
"I've no idea… they want Russia singled off again, fully communist, not a trace of the west in it, like it was in the mid 20th century." Jack says.
"Those days are long gone… people like that make me ashamed to be part Russian." Carly says.
20 minutes before the shooting…
Carly got off her Vader and approached the airport, looking for Sam… it was at that moment that she was shoved down, spun around and rammed her right foot in between her attacker's legs.
"Fuck off!" Carly yells, two of the others holding her down as the other stood up, Carly struggling to get free and swearing in Russian, which set one of them off, prompting him to shoot her left ankle.
"She's just a damn kid, was that necessary?! She speaks our language!" One of them yells.
"She's not a full blooded Russian! Too much American blood in her!" The leader says.
"What do you want done with the bitch?!" One of them asks, Carly clobbering him with a brick as he was one of the ones holding her down before punching the other, all five leaving her behind.
Present time…
"We should've killed her! She saw our faces, she could be at the police station now!" One of the Russians says when they were all back at their safe house.
"Actually… that's not such a bad thing, it might bring us closer to the war path plan… imagine the headlines… 'Russians responsible for over 200 deaths in American airport'." The leader, Zukovsky, says.
"That might not happen, she seems like a criminal herself." Another one says.
"Either way, it's not such a bad outcome… we still cleanly accomplished what we set out to do, we can't deny that." Zukovsky says.
"Zukovsky…" The third one says, motioning his leader to the computer. "Hacked into the LSPD Database… there she is. And now that we know who she is… what do you want done with her?" He says, pointing to Carly's record.
"I'll deal with it… just be ready, things may get rough in which case…" Zukovsky says before bringing up an image on the screen of the laptop. An image of Sam. "...you'll kill her at the first sign that Carly's going to attack me." He finishes.
"She wouldn't listen to you… how are you gonna get her to talk to you?" The first Russian asks.
"I've got something in mind…" Zukovsky says, bringing up an image of a girl of about the same age as Carly, 5'6'' with green eyes and, unusually, white hair.
"And… how does this girl help us?" The second Russian asks.
"She and Carly know each other… or they did a long time ago." Zukovsky says.
Meanwhile, Carly was taking inventory of the weapons she had in her room when the window was opened and Amethyst climbed into the room, startled to see an RPG amongst the weapons.
"Shouldn't you be resting? You were shot." Amethyst says, seeing a photo nearby of a younger Carly and the girl with white hair and green eyes. "Who's the other kid?" She asks.
"That's what I've been trying to remember… old memories are still fractured but I knew her back in Ludendorff." Carly says as Amethyst closed the window. "Speaking of disappearing, where have you been these past few months?" She asks, taking a picture of the girl and sending it to Lester with the text 'Does she look familiar? I can't remember her.'.
"When your father is a highly known gang leader, dangers arise and sometimes, people need to hide for a bit." Amethyst says.
"Who's pissed at Madrazo now? I swear, I haven't been near him since Trevor returned Patricia to your family." Carly says.
"There's some tension rising, one of the planes carrying a shipment of agreed weapons was shot down as it crossed into Mexico, other gang is demanding their shipment but it takes time to get ahold of things again." Amethyst says.
"Damn." Carly says before answering her phone, Amethyst motioning for her to put it on speaker.
"What'd you find, Lester?" Amethyst asks.
"Natalya Jassen ring any bells?" Lester asks.
"She was a childhood friend of mine, she and her family picked up and left Ludendorff without any explanation when I was 4… what's going on here, Lester?" Carly says.
"The Russians, the ones who attacked the airport… they've got her, Carly." Lester says.
"She's a kid, damn it! Why do they have her?!" Carly says angrily, slamming her fist onto the dresser and making Amethyst jump back as Johnny ran in.
"They took her to get your attention… they want to talk to you." Lester says.
"I don't even…" Carly says before getting that look. "Ivory was working with a Russian named Ian Demolski before the riots… these fuckers want to play this kind of game, they messed with the wrong person!" She growls before hanging up and loading her AK-47. "Jack, we're going hunting!" She yells before Jack runs in.
"For whom?" Jack asks.
"Now that… is gonna be a surprise." Carly says.