Abandoned Factory, New Orleans.
Lissa wakes up and unknown amount of time later and for the first time since she was taken by the Koreans over a week ago it's quiet when she wakes up. Right away she finds the quiet scary; she's so use to waking up to noise and thinking through the noise now it's quiet. It's deafening. The room she's in is rundown with the faint scent of dirt and dust. The window in the room is boarded over on the outside leading her to believe it's some abandoned building.
She sits up on the bed she had been sleeping in, more of a military style folding cot than a bed, but still better than a floor. She's in an oversized black t-shirt with a pair of loose fitting shorts on. There's stirring in the bed and she realizes, she's not alone. Curled beside her is Colt with Remy on the floor. Seeing them brings a swell of emotions to her as well as tears to her eyes. "Hi guys, I've missed you." She tells them giving them both a generous scratch behind their ears.
With the dogs' content, Lissa turns her attention to herself, she lifts up the shirt and looks at her stomach where now a bandage is taped down over where the shocker had been stabbed into her. It's sore to sit up and even more sore to the touch, but she can feel the shocker is gone.
A glass of water is on the floor by her bed and she greedily drinks it down, wanting more to drink and more to eat. She pads over to the door with her feet bare but just as she gets there her mind flashes back to the interrogation room. The dirty dust room fades away to the bright, clean and sterile smelling room in the police station. The fear she felt there floods back into her system and noise rings through her ears. "Stop it!" She screams putting her hands over her ears. "Derek. Help." She pleads.
The door to the room opens and her mind flashes between the real and the fake. One second it's Maggie and Tool standing there the next it's Chin and a Korean solider.
"Lissa it's okay." Maggie/Chin tells her. "Look at me, it's not real." She grabs ahold of Lissa's wrists pulling them away from her ears, "Listen to me Lissa we're trying to help you."
Lissa looks to Maggie wide eyed, the noise fades away but her mind is torn between reality and the fake world her mind has made up. "You're not real." Lissa cries. The only possible solution her mind can come up with why she's seeing two things at once is somehow the Koreans got past the CIA mind mumbo jumbo control and are implanting things in her head. Tricking her that she's among friends to tell them where Billy and the others are. To tell them every plan the Exes made. Lissa being on edge causes both dogs to being barking and growling, which doesn't help the situation.
"Lissa, darling, we are real." Tool tells her softly, "You're stronger than this, fight it. I know you're tired I know you're weak. But you've never given up before, so don't give up."
Maggie looks to Tool, a somber look on her face, "I think we need Billy. He'll be able to get through to her."
"Lissa, where's Billy? We'll get him for you." Tool says. Since they set up camp in this abandoned factory on the outskirts of New Orleans they had been trying to find Billy, Lissa and the others. With no clue as to the location of Toll's safe house nor Billy and Lissa's, they were left guessing.
Lissa's mind flips to the fake reality her mind as made up and she looks to Chin, delivering a kick to his right knee cap and throwing a punch at his face. The movements cause her stomach to scream out in pain but she doesn't care. "I won't tell you. I'll never tell you." She screams. As she grows angry the flashes between the real and fake come quicker and quicker and only confuse her more.
Parish Prison, New Orleans
Barney is now located in a prison cell in Cell Block B. He doesn't like being confined to the small cell and finds himself constantly pacing and doing push-ups. He's rarely let out of his cell now, which worries him greatly. He hasn't seen Yin since the night he informed him that Lissa had been taken. He can only hope that Yin was able to rescue Lissa and blew his cover. Though there's been little talk of the Exes.
Every time a guard walks by, Barney looks for glimpses of the world on their phones and tablets. A part of him hopes to see a message from Lissa or another Expendable, but there's never anything there. He's starting to regret letting himself being taken. Barney Ross doesn't like sitting out of a fight.
He's in the middle of a set of crunches when guards drag a half conscious man pass Barney's cell. Barney finds himself looking at the man and it takes all of his self-control not to make a noise. The man being dragged past him is a badly beaten Yin. Yin glances at Barney, just out of the corner of one eye. It's quick and then he looks to the guards dragging him.
"You'll never win. The American flag will fly free. American will be free. You'll be dead. You may have us caged like dogs but that won't last. There's a songbird just ready to be free."
The message sounds like nonsense and babbling to them but to Barney the message is clear. Lissa is still in custody. Songbird was a codename they had use for Lissa in a mission just before they all took a break.
Barney finds his hands balling up into fists. His only connection to the outside world is gone. Lissa is still in Korean custody and he's locked in a jail cell. His doesn't know where half is team is and the other half have gone silent.
Somewhere Outside New Orleans
Gunnar sets a plane down in a farmer's field, making a note to one day apologize for destroying the crops, though they look a little dry which makes him wonder if the farmer has been taken into Korean custody. He climbs out of the small plane he had flown in and finds himself stretching. The plane was awfully cramped with him inside, much like being a clown car. It didn't help that he had another oversized passenger.
"So where are we going?" Trench asks, stretching as he climbs out of the plane, "And next time, I'm demanding first class accommodations."
Gunnar cracks a smirk, "First we need to get Betsy somewhere safe then we look for the others."