Jack went out of the room and ordered the men waiting outside "Escort Mr. Glant to the van. He's ready to transport."

"Hey, we had a deal! You promised to let me go if I helped!" Glant shouted, being led out by the guards.

"Sorry to disappoint you but I've never said something like that." Jack said in a calm voice not hiding the smile on his face.

"You're a fucking idiot. I will kill you. My bosses will kill you."

"After they knew you had given them away? I do you a favour not to let you go." Glant tried to attack Jack but he was stopped by his guards. They led him to a van to transport him to prison.

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Tony woke up lieing on the ground of a dark room with his hand tied behind his back. He didn't know what had happened. He felt pain in his head when he struggled to get to a sitting position. Then the memories came back. He saw his friend sitting next to him frightened and wounded...

He realized how big trouble he was in. The door opened and light came in. Tony was still squinting when two men approached him. They grabbed him hard and escorted him out of the room. He noticed they were in a basement. He saw pipes going over the corridor. There were no other doors. They went up on metal steps. He tried to resist but they were much stronger than him and he couldn't get out of their grasp.

In the room three well-dressed men were talking.

"Oh, good morning Mr. Almeida. Sit down, please." the grey-haired man started speaking, showing to a chair in the middle of the room.

"Would you like something to drink?" They made Tony sit down. He just stared behind himself saying nothing. He didn't wanted to speak because they would have known how frightened he was in the minute he said a word. Neither of the men was familiar to him and it annoyed him.

Tony was so scared that he had never been before in his life. He knew he had to keep calm whatever happened. He was trained to be calm in different conditions but he experienced that it had no use. He liked his job normally but in that minute he hated himself not to listen to his mother trying to persuade him to become a teacher or a doctor or something like that. Something less dangerous. The thought of was Michelle helped him not to give up. He had to fight not only for himself but for the sake of her.

"By the way my name is Max. May I call you Tony?" Max carried on his monolog acknowledging Tony's dumbness. Like it was usuall in a dialog between people. He spoke in an annoying way. He kept a bit silence between his sentences.

"So Tony, first of all let me congratulate you. You have a wonderfull wife. Michelle is beautiful, attractive and clever. She'll be a perfect mother." Tony looked up suddenly but said nothing. He looked straight in his eyes. Max could see the anger and the frightening in his eyes.

The way Max said her name made him shudder. The thought of her being in danger due to him frightened him. He didn't want her to be hurt. She meant too much for him. He hated not to know what happened to her. God, he didn't even know if she was alive.

"OK, I understand. Back to the business. All we want to know is the number of the safe you're keeping the two discs. I am sure you know what I am talking about. The current CTU directors are given these discs to keep them in a safe place." He kept a bigger silence and carried on. "We offer you and Mishelle a Swiss account with a large amount of money and you can live." He kept another silence before going on. "Or you can choose the harder way. We bring her in. Our experts are looking forward to 'seeing' her. And of course you can watch the show from the first row. If it doesn't work we'll torture you and she'll watch you suffering. If you don't speak, we'll kill her. We'll get what we want, Tony. It's up to you how. You've got 15 minutes to decide." They went out of the room and left Tony with the two guards.

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"Jack, Glant escaped." Chloe rushed to him with the news.

"Is anyone hurt?"

"No, the boys did excellent job. He doesn't even suspect anything."

"Good. Where is he going?"

"I have perfect transmission. He is heading to the north by a stolen car."

"Follow him and tell me if he stops. We'll be in touch with you from the cars." He said and went to his team. They were ready to leave. Jack got on his bullet-proof vest and followed the others.

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