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While Tony and Michelle were being driven back to CTU by Jack, Tony pulled himself up from the seat and looked in the rearview mirror, meeting Jack's eyes. "Jack," he said as Jack looked at him, "I have an idea. How about you and Michelle go back to CTU to figure out these numbers and I'll try and find my son?" he asked. He waited for Jack to answer him but it was Michelle that answered him instead.

"And let yourself get hurt without the right squad?" Michelle asked as she turned around and looked at him.

Tony looked at her with an expression of puzzlement and a little bit of admiration. He didn't know that Michelle still shared some feelings for him. The two had been separated for almost two years, when Chris was just three years old. His heart had been broken when he left his son, but he knew that he was leaving him in good hands. Since Mihelle decided to end their marrige, Tony never, ever insulted her. He was just upset that she decided to file for divorce. He met Michelle's beautiful eyes and he wished that he was still with this woman. He mentally yelled at himself and beat himself up for being so stupid in drinking so much.

"What can we do?" Tony asked Michelle. "If we gather up a team it might be too late to save Chris. You heard what the terrorist wanted. To shut down CTU so they could get away."

"I am not going t let you go alone and fight," Michelle said as she looked in his eyes. "Chris is my son too and we will do everything in our power to save him. Even if it means shutting down CTU."

"Are we really going to do that?" Tony asked no one in particular.

"I don't know," Michelle said as she turned bak around and looked outside the window. She knew that something was going to go wrong today. It usually does when you are working at CTU but she never imagied her son being th victim. What could a five year old do that was cosidered bad and harmful to other peolpe? Children were innocent beings that do no wrong in their childhood lives. It made her mad just thinking about this person going after her son. What else did they want from her? Other than to shut down CTU.

"There has to be a way to create a diversion," Jack suddenly said as he made a turn and entered the CTU parking lot. He parked the car and the three of them jumped out of the car. Clutching the paper in one hand, Jack, Tony, and Michelle walked back into CTU. Jack reached up Chloe's station. "Chloe," he began as he handed the paper to her, "we were attacked and I found this on our attacker," he said as Chloe took the slip of paper.

Chloe inspected the paper and looked at the series of numbers on it. "I don't know what these mean," she said as she whirled her chair around and looked at the computer. She opened up a file and typed on the search button the number that was on the piece of paper. Pretty soon, an invalid tab popped up. "What?" she sighed. She clanked on the keyboard again and the same sign showed up. "I cannot get in," she said. "'The numbers that you entered are invalid,'" she read from the sign.

"Maybe its not one of the terrorists that we have caught in the past," Michelle thought out loud.

"No I'm pretty sure this guy that I killed was a link to the kidnappers," Jack said, "he wouldn't have randomly shown up and shot that woman that I was talking to."

"That makes sense," Tony said.

"And I found this in him also," Jack said as he took out the phone that he took from their attacker. He clicked on the button and the screen with a pictue of a lock showed up again.

Chloe took he phone in her hand and looke at it. She looked at the piece of paper. She began to click on the buttons of the phone. The password tab had about eleven black dots there which were the numbers that Chloe had put it. She clicked OK with her index finger and the phone unlocked. "I got it open," she said as she handed the phone to Jack. "This was the password to the phone," she said as the held the paper up.

"Great," Jack said as he started to go through the phone numbers that were called. There were about twenty calls made to the same person, but only one of them was different. "Check this number out," he said as he held the phone up to Chloe.

Chloe looked at the number and typed it in the computer. When she did that, she clicked enter and a file showed up. "Here it is," she said as a picture popped up. It was a picture of a man. "Josh Stone," Chloe read, "had been arrested three times for kidnapping a minor, rape, and murder. He served in prison for thrity years."

"Is he still alive?" Tony asked her.

Chloe turned around and shook her head at him. "No, he commited suicide about a week ago."

Jack looked at the phone numer and clicked "Call Information." When he did that, a new page came up and it gave the date and the time the call was made. It was August 30th, which was definently last week. He closed that page and went back to the phone calls. "What about these ones?" he asked Chloe.

Chloe quickly typed the numbers into the computer. Another file came up and she clicked on it. "Isabelle Fonda," she read, "this is the person that we are trying to find!" She had been searching folders, archives, different phone numbers that she found through phone calls and satellites, and she finally found it through Jack's founding.

Michelle suddenly realized something. "Didn't we find something out about Mandy?"

"What do you mean?" Tony asked her.

"The paper we found back home," she reminded him, "we found out that the paper that we found, was written by Mandy. Maybe Isabelle and Mandy are working together...and they must've kidnapped my son!" she almost yelled. She felt her chest tighten as she almost fainted. She felt some strong but soft arms around her arms as she was helped up to her feet.

"Michelle, Michelle," Tony softly said as he held her against him, "relax, we'll find him."

"I know that they kidnapped your son but what do they want in return?" Chloe suddenly asked them with curiosity.

Tony looked at Chloe and then at Jack who waited patiently for his answer. "To shut down CTU."

"Shut down CTU?" Chloe asked him. If they shutdown CTU how would Mandy and Isabelle know about it? They wouldn't be able to drive here and see CTU shut down, they would be exposing themselves too much and they would be more then likely to get caught.

"And to kill Jack," Tony finished as he looked at Jack.