"Ah, Face we thought you were dead," said Hannibal, putting a cigar in his mouth, when Face finally returned to the van, Murdock standing behind him, patting 'Billy'.
"Yeah, fool, where have you been?" BA cracked his knuckles.
"Now I'm sure we can discuss this sensibly," said Face nervously, looking at BA.

"So where we going Hannibal?" smiled Murdock, pretending to not have heard that conversation, "come on Billy, get in the van, BA won't hurt you,"

"You don't have a dog sucker!"
"Yes, he does, look I think Billy likes you BA," smirked Face, grateful for Murdock's distraction. BA growled.

Hannibal allowed Face and Murdock to get in and he didn't say another word on the subject but he was going to bring it up again, and he was going to get an answer.

**

Murdock whistled as he strolled back into the mental hospital.

"Murdock I do wish you would not go running off like that, it has people worried, where did you go?" a kind nurse said when she saw Murdock.
"But I had to walk Billy," he said, like asking him where he had been was a stupid question.
"For three days?!"
"He needed a long walk,"
"Oh well, let's get you back to your room...oh! And an old army friend of yours called, I think his name was err...Lynch. He seemed very keen to see you," she smiled, thinking Murdock would like this news, "I think he is coming back today, to see if you're back."
"Well, I'm not in then," Murdock went to turn around and walk back out.

"Ah, hello, Murdock, good to see you again," said Lynch, he smiled forcefully. He stood right in front of Murdock and they stood face to face, Murdock just a bit taller.
"I don't think Billy likes him, maybe he should go," whispered Murdock to the nurse.
"No, this nice man would like to speak to you," she whispered softly, rolling her eyes at Murdock's excuse, did he use that 'dog' for everything?! "I'll take Murdock back to his room and you can talk there," she smiled at Lynch, obviously believeing Lynch's lie.

"What do you want?" spat Murdock, all politeness and niceness gone from his voice and all insanity gone from his tone of voice.

"Now, I know that you know the A-team and you know where they're hiding," said Lynch, getting straight to the point, he spotted a chair, threw the clothes off of it and sat it in bolt upright, "And a little birdie told me that you have a daughter."

"Who is this bird? I think I need to teach it a lesson about keeping its beak shut," murmured Murdock to himself, anger flowing through his words; he wasn't stupid and knew where this 'conversation' was headed.

"And if you don't help me catch the A-team, you will find yourself out of this comfy mental hospital," Murdock didn't think that sounded too bad, he wouldn't betray his friends just to stay here, but what did his daughter have to do with this; she wasn't in the hospital? "And I know who your daughter is and where she is... let's just say that I really want the A-team once and for all," Murdock's brain filled in the gaps; if he didn't help his daughter would end up hurt.

"You wouldn't hurt an innocent little girl!?"

"Oh, your daughter has friends within 'gangs' so she has links to them, even if those 'gangs' haven't done anything wrong or even if their crimes are tiny, I can fit her and her friends with large crimes and get them sent down for life. Do you really think your 15 year old daughter would survive in a brutal women prison?"

Murdock had heard rumours that women prisons were a thousand times worse than male ones and no, he didn't think that his 15 year old daughter would be ok, what sort of 15 year old girl would be?! But he knew his 'little' girl was tough and if she did have high-status friends on the streets, would those friends really let her get sent down for life? And Murdock knew that he would get the best lawyer he could afford, but even then he didn't think it would be enough to win over Lynch.

"Oh, and I have your daughter, so there is no way you can refuse," Lynch gave a wicked smile, maybe this guy was the one who should be in the mental hospital!

Murdock nearly screamed; she had been ok and fine when he and Face saw her three days ago, Lynch must have got her when she was at the airport.

Murdock had no choice; he would have to help Lynch!

"O-OK, I-I'll help you," he whispered just loud enough for Lynch to hear, Lynch paraded out but Murdock just stood there, his face pale and full of shock; he was going to betray his friends and when he did he would probably end up in prison, and worst of all the A-team and Amy would hate him and maybe Loony would too.

Suddenly Murdock remembered something very important, he smiled...