Tony watched Jack during the ride they had sedated him incase he tried to escape or there was any sort of problem. Jack's eyes were half opened, but he still seemed alert, but Tony was sure the drug was enough to sedate Jack, and he watched the medic take it out of the bottle, insert it into the syringe and put the syringe and push the plunger down in Jack's arm. He was sure the drug was in Jack, even if he still seemed alert.

"Is he going to be ok?" Tony asked the medic who was looking over the gun shot wound.

"Yeah it's just a scratch in a bad spot. It'll hurt like hell if he tries to walk, but he'll live unfortunately." The medic answered dressing the wound.

"I doubt he'll be walking anytime." Tony said under his breath. He wondered what Jack had told Chase while he was out of the room. It had to be enough to make Chas think twice about Jack's fate.

Jack's mind was gone he tried to keep alert look about him, but his mind was back to the long cold nights in the cell. He had waited for his captures to come every night, and they never let him down. They had showed him letter they had sent to CTU warning them of what they were doing, they even brought in a person Jack knew as a informant to CTU, who had supposedly told CTU and the CIA where Jack was, they never came. Jack slowly lost all hope, the meekest hope he held on to after he watched his daughter die, the little hope we all have that keeps us going on even after the worse events occur, the hope that maybe there is plan out there and everything will work out in the end. He lost that slowly as CTU never came to help him, he heard of the charges that Hammond had him brought up on for killing Michaels and the Nina impersonator. That was the end of all his hope and faith. That night Nina came and he was in the weakest state he had ever been in he no longer had the will to fight his enemy.

He remembered a question posed once in a class that had always stuck with him, "What do you do when your friends turn their back on you and the only thing you have left is your mortal enemy?" Jack always thought it was an easy answer, forget them both and move on, but it wasn't like that in real life. He had learned quickly that philosophy had no place in real life because what you think is right in a circumstance you have never been in, is rarely right. You have to live it to know it, and understand that when that situation comes you have a split second to make a decision and whether it's right or wrong you have to live with it, and that was what he was doing living with his decisions.

They arrived at the building. Few people knew the places actual use, and even fewer had actually seen the inside. It was the United States dirty little secret, that they hid well. The ambulanced was allowed to go to the loading dock underground, where three huge Marine guards stood with M-16's ready for the new visitor of the building.

Tony held his breath as the back doors to the ambulanced opened. One of the guards asked, "Are you Tony Almeida?"

"Yes." Tony said.

"I.D. please."

Tony showed the man his CTU badge.

"Welcome Mr. Almeida is this the prisoner, Jack Bauer?" The guard asked not knowing any of Jack's history nor caring, he would forget the name as soon as the man entered the building because than he no longer existed.

"Yes it is."

"Follow me please." The guards stepped back so Tony could get out of the ambulance.

Two of the guards unloaded the gurney Jack was restrained to and wheeled it through the gray corridors. Tony thought to himself, every federal building had the same layout and color scheme even the unknown ones. The only difference about this building was that Tony felt like he had stepped out of the real world and into a George Orwell's 1984 world. Big brother was watching every step, he felt like asking if he could see a poster of big brother, but decided against it he was sure the guards were not the type to have a sense of humor.

Tony followed the guard and watched the men wheel Jack into a room, he sure was not a pleasant place to be. The guard stopped a few rooms down and used a key card to open the door on top of punching in a six digit code. "Please wait here Mr. Almeida. Someone will join you soon and brief you on your responsibilities here." The guard let Tony in and closed the door behind him. Tony heard the lock on the door and felt like a prisoner all of the sudden. The room had a small table with two chairs, and Tony counted two camera's and he was sure there was a third behind a glass window. Tony stood in the corner he felt like a prisoner but he didn't have to sit in the interrogation chair. It was mere minutes before someone joined him.

A tall blonde walked into the room. Tony did a double take before he was able to take the baffled look of his face. "Kate?" Tony said in a low voice confused as to why she would be here.

"Hi Tony."

"What are you doing here?" Tony was confused and could not think of a reason why Kate Warner would be at a super secret government agency.

Putting her hand out to politely point to a chair Kate said, "Please take a seat and I'll answer all of your questions."

Tony sat down to baffled to object.

"Why am I here? Remember when my sister went all terrorist? She was brought here. Someone from here contacted me and asked me to help them. They needed someone she knew and had good feeling about at some time, even if she didn't have them when she turned. They needed that human contact to help, reeducate her."

"Reeducate?" Tony asked knowing the use of the word in a Vietnam communist taking over and torturing their predecessors calling it reeducation.

"They wanted to try to break her out of the brainwashing she was subject to, and use whatever she knew to help them."

"Than what?"

"It depends. She went to prison instead of being executed, but resently we pulled her out and used her for a spy against the different organizations. She used the cover that she escaped you will remember the articles in the paper about it, and CTU's failed attempt to locate her. She's currently undercover somewhere working off her sentence."

"Ok. Why are you still her?"

"I was good at the job, and I had nothing left really. I was tired of the life I had, and this seemed like a good career choice, I get to put my psychology degree to good use."

Tony shook his head taking it all in, "Now what about Jack?"

"I haven't seen him yet, but I've heard he's pretty far gone. We are going to try to break him again, and than see what happens. He has one major difference than most of the people that come into here."

"He has nothing left to live for." Tony said before Kate had a chance.

"Yes."

"Than what?"

"Hopefully we can put him back out there and use him to get to the organizations. He might even have enough information now to bring down whoever Nina was working for."

"Why am I here than?"

"You are his friend, were his friend, and we're hoping you'll help us." Kate looked at him blankly.

"What would I have to do?"

"Just observe and possibly give the people pointers, and when the time is right we'll send you in." Kate said, "If I'm not mistaken we're using the same technique they used to break him."

"How do you know?" Tony asked fearing he already knew the answer.

"They let it happen. He was not high on the priority list, and we hoped that he would last long enough and absorb enough information to help us."

"You mean to tell me that WE" Tony raised his voice he was clearly angry, "LET This happen to him. WE knew where he was and we let them do this to him?"

"Yes." Kate answered looking down she had the same reaction when she found out. In the end she knew what Jack had once told her was the truth, people meant nothing to the government in the end, it was just getting results, if you could get the results they didn't care how it happened, who you loved was killed didn't matter. The whole was more important than the individual in the end.

"WHY?" Tony asked confused.

"I don't know why." Kate answered truthfully. "I just found out myself an hour ago."

"Who would know?"

The door opened and in walked David Palmer.