The following occurs between the hours of 4:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m.

4:00 a.m.

Kim walked over to Chase and began to tell him all Tony had told her. Chase first reaction was shock. He knew of Jack and Nina history and he never figured Jack would meet her by himself, and he couldn't believe that the president would allow him to. Together Kim and Chase walked over to Michelle and offered to help with anything.

Michelle was on the phone with the air traffic controller who gave the plane permission to land. They were trying to trace the flight of the plane that took Jack from the air port.

"We might have something. We have the plane landing on our records. When it took off again it was going south. The airplane was a Cessna call number Alpha Bravo 99. If you contact some of the southern flight controls they might be able to help you." The air traffic controlled said.

"Thanks."

Michelle hung up the phone and looked at Kim and Chase. "You two can help me. Kim, compile a list of air traffic controls stations numbers from here to Mexico. Than you and Chase call them you are looking for a Cessna plane with the call number of Alpha Bravo 99. We need to know where it landed last, and possibly who the owner is. I'm going to brief Tony on this possible break."

4:10 a.m.

The rope was cutting into Jacks hands and his arms already burning from hanging from them. Chris examined the different tools on his table. Some of which are a hot wood engraver, tazer, a knife, baseball bat, and matches. Grabbing the baseball bat the he caressed it as if it were his favorite item.

He walked up to Jack and said, "You never should of hit me. I might have started out easier." He got into a batter stance and swung hard hitting Jack in the ribs. Jack screamed out in pain. His breath was quickening, and coming in gasps now. Again the man swung hitting Jack again, and again and again. Jack screaming in pain each time. "Jack what does CTU know about Treadstone?"

Jack glared at him defiantly gasping for breath. The man took the bat back again this time striking Jack in the knee. Jack screamed in pain again. The man swung the bat again connecting with Jacks ribs. Each time Jack breathed pain shuttered through his body. Every breath was worse than the next. Just the movement of his body caused pain. Thinking caused pain.

Nina who was sitting at the table smiled to herself. She did not hate Jack, but she liked to see him in pain for all the trouble he caused and for how he abandoned her to go back to his wife. She would like to get a piece of Jack. She was happy she would be here to see him break. She would cherish the moment for quite some time.

The short man put the bat down and looked at Jack. He said, "Jack what do you know about Treadstone? Tell me before you end up looking like Swiss cheese."

The man punched Jack twice in the face. First with his left hand than his right causing Jack's head turned with the force of the blows and blood flew out of his mouth. The ropes now were digging so hard into his skin that blood was dripping down his arms. Again the man hit him in the face this time cutting open Jacks lip and causing him to have a bloody nose. Blood was dripping downs Jack's face. He could taste the rusty blood in his throat and it made him want to gag.

"Jack what do you know about Treadstone?"

Jack spit blood out at the man hitting him in the face with it. "Jack, why did you do that?"

The man walked over to the table and grabbed the hot wood engraver. It looked like a pin, but it was so hot that it was used to engrave wood. The man took the hot wood engraver and stuck it to Jacks left nipple. Jack screamed out in pain. He began to cuss the man. The man again held the hot engraver to Jacks left nipple and he continued to hold it there for a few minutes. Jack screamed in pain and his eyes bulged this was almost like last time.

Chris walked over to the cart and grabbed a syringe full of liquid. "Jack, Do you know what black widow spider venom does to the body?" The man paused for a second holding the syringe up so that Jack could see it. "It makes the neurotransmitters in your body to release acetylcholine, which is responsible for your skeletal muscles movements. See your neurotransmitters keep releasing it. And reuptake does not occur so your muscles began to spasm. A large dose could kill you, but I'm going to give you a little taste. Enough to cause pain, but not kill you. This is going to hurt like hell. Especially with those broken ribs." Chris walked up to Jack and stuck the syringe in his arm releasing only a small amount of the venom into Jacks blood stream. It took a minute for the venom to react and when it did Jack began to move around like he was having a seizure. The venom caused all of his skeletal muscles to contract. Jack screamed in pain every part of his body hurt. After a few minutes of this Jacks body went limp. His eyes were still open and he was still breathing, but he did not have enough strength to do anything else. His mind was else were and he did not hear the conversation between Nina, Chris and Treadstone.

"Let him rest for a moment. I need a tub full of freezing cold water." The man said to Nina.

Nina knocked on the door and told the guard outside what the torturer wanted.

Treadstone asked, "How long do you think it'll be before he breaks?"

"I'm not sure sir. He is a strong man and stubborn. This makes him hard to break."

"Sir I have a suggestion. If for some reason this does not work you might think about threatening to bring his daughter into it. He might give for that." Nina said.

"Good idea. If he doesn't break soon than we try his daughter."

4:30
"Michelle I got a hit on the plane. It is an air traffic controller close to the Mexican border. She says that the plane flew across the border. The weird thing is that it did not land at an airport; this is why she remembers it. It landed a few miles across the border in the desert." Kim reported to her.

"Do we have a clue were the plane is now?" Michelle asked.

Kim said something into the phone. "Yeah it landed at a small air field in the southern part of the state. The owner is Ryne Sevin. He usually does tourist flights. The flight controller is looking up his number now. She knows him."

"Good Kim. As soon as you get the number go to Tony and tell him."

Kim waited a moment and than wrote down the number the air traffic controller gave her. She thanked her and ran up to Tony's office.

"Tony we found where the plane landed and the owner. The plane landed a few miles over the Mexican border and the pilot is a Ryne Sevin his number is 555-6787. He usually flies tourist around. The air traffic controller down there knows him and she said he isn't into anything illegal that she knows of."

"Good Kim. I'm going to call him. Tell Chase to join me in my office. You did good. Why don't you go report this to the Chief of Staff. He's in conference room B."

"Ok Tony."

Tony picked up the phone and dialed the number of the pilot.

A man with a sleepy voice answered, "Hello."

"Are you Mr. Ryne Sevin?"

"Yeah. Who is this?"

"Sir I'm Tony Almadia I'm the director of CTU up in Los Angles. Did you fly down to Mexico earlier this mourning?"

"Yeah." The man paused for a moment, he wasn't sure if he should say what he was thinking, but if it had anything to do with CTU he thought he better, "I thought it was kind of funny. There was this guy they had me fly down there. I didn't know what I was getting into when I accepted the deal. They told me I'd fly this guy down there and he would go with a woman. They forced the guy though. When he got to the airport up there they had him change and gunpoint and I had the clothes for him. Than when we landed he fought them and one of the guys knocked him out and cuffed him. Threw him in the back of a black Van. They said if I said anything they'd know and they'd come back for me. That's why I didn't contact to police or anything. I'm just a small business man I didn't want any trouble."

"Sir do you know where in Mexico you landed?"

"No it was just over the bordered. As soon as I crossed I started my descent and than we landed where the flares were."

"Do you know what the man's name was?"

"Yeah it was Jack. The woman knew him. She called him by name when he landed."

"Sir do you have email?"

"Yeah its p-i-l-o-t-n-u-m-1-@msn.com"

"Ok. I'm going to email you a picture let me know if this is the woman you saw."

"Ok. Let me get my computer turned on."

Chase walked into the room. Tony motioned for him to sit down. Tony put the phone down and said, "Chase we have a lead on Jack if we get a location you and I and a team are going in to get him. Hopefully he's still alive. He did meet with Nina and some others. From what the pilot says they wanted Jack alive because they knocked him out and didn't kill him on the spot. So that has to be good."

The pilot got back on. "Yap that's her. She has longer hair, but that's her."

"Thank you sir. I'm going to send some people from the FBI office there to take your statement and see if you can describe anybody else. They'll be over soon."

"Ok glad to help. Sorry I should have called the cops. But I have a wife and daughter and I don't want to get them hurt."

"I understand sir you did the right thing."

4:50 a.m.

When his mind finally cleared and the majority of the pain cleared he saw he was still in the room and still hanging. He cursed silently to himself. Nina and Treadstone were sitting at the table talking quietly. He heard the president's name before they noticed he was awake. Chris came into the room followed by a guy carrying a tub fool of what looked like ice, but it sloshed around some so there must have been some water in it.

"Good your awake we can began with the fun again." Taking the knife off the table the short man had the person who helped him carry the tub of ice in cut Jack down. Jack fell to the ground with a thud and a groan.

The short man grabbed Jack by the arms and pulled him over to the bucket of ice water. Grabbing Jacks hair he shoved Jacks head into the freezing ice with just enough water to keep it freezing. He held Jacks under for a minute. Jack fought to push his head up, but was too weak to fight Chris. He was more powerful than what he looked like. Pulling Jacks up he asked, "What do you know about Treadstone Jack? Tell me and I'll stop."

Jack did not answer. And again the man shoved Jacks head into the water. This time holding it under for even longer. When his head reemerged from the water Jack gasped for air. Immediately after he got one breath of air the man pushed his head back under. While under this time Jack lost his breath and began to suck in water. When he reemerged he was coughing up water. The water was so cold that his head was numb. His entire body shacked from the coldness. "Jack what do you know about Treadstone?"

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