"You know who I am and I know who you are Daniel, so lets skip the pleasantries."
"Do you know who I am?" He asked, not trying to be smart, simply wondering if Jack had told her about him.
"I know that you did something to my father, something that made him ignore your existence through my entire life You must have done something pretty bad... he isn't the type to hold a grudge." She lied on the last part, but knew her words would effect him, they had to make him think at least, as the thought alone hurt her, and she didn't know what had happened, and she wasn't involved. Tony knew this wasn't the subject they wanted to cover, but had to admit, the moment she mentioned it he began to squirm. Maybe this way was going to work after all.
"I did not do anything to him..." He said, his voice going soft.
"Of course you did! Why else would he pretend he has no living relatives other than me, when he has a brother!"
"I didn't mean for him to get hurt!" Daniel yelled, the guilt forcing it out of him. "He got in the way, it was his fault!" He said desperately, wanting to make her understand.
"Daniel do you care about my dad? Were you even bothered when you left him twenty years ago?" She asked, coldly, wanting him to let his guard down so he would eventually spill the beans on the whole bomb plot.
"I didn't want to leave him... I had no choice..." He said, desperately wanting her to believe him.
"So you do care about him?" She asked in a mocking tone.
"Yes." He said quietly. He knew what they were up to, but couldn't fight them, he had to let her know he didn't ever mean to leave Jack.
"So let me get this straight." She said. "You care about my dad, but still plan to detonate a bomb which would kill him? Your gonna have to help me here, I'm a little confused." She said. Tony stood back and let her run the show, she was doing a pretty good job he thought.
Daniel, was equally confused. "No... it wasn't my idea to set it off here, but... they wanted to, so we decided it was best if we all died in the bomb, that way they would see how strong our fight is." As he spoke it was as though he was trying to remember what they had taught him, not what he believed.
"What are you fighting against?" She asked, interested.
"This inhumane world." He stated.
"Which means what exactly? The cruelty? The government? Elaborate."
Daniel was getting aggravated and panicky. "Everything!" He said.
It was here they both knew that Daniel didn't even know what he was fighting against.
"So your telling me, your willing to kill yourself, your brother, and hundreds of other people, for something you don't even understand?" She said sarcastically.
Daniel lowered his head embarrassed. "Your not responsible for the bomb itself, are you?" She asked, knowing the answer.
"No." He whispered, refusing to look up.
"Then who is, and what part in all of this did you play?"
"I wanted Jack to think I was really successful, that I was in charge of the whole thing." He admitted, but Kim wanted to get him back on track.
"I'm sure my dad would be a lot happier knowing that you weren't responsible, so who is responsible Daniel?" She said, in a caring gentle tone.
"I don't know, he contacted me through an e-mail in my laptop." It was here Kim herd Michelle's voice come in through her ear piece, telling her she had already assigned people to the computer. "I was supposed to get Jack and two others from here, so they wouldn't find it." He said.
"Are you willing to die Daniel, give up everything, give up your family?" She said, staring deep into him. After thinking about it for a few minutes he slowly shook his head.
"I just wanted to make Jack think I was doing good. I only took the job to get some extra money, they were paying big. I didn't even know about the thing until Joel told me yesterday."
This caught both Tony and Kim's attention, and Tony was about to jump in, but he decided to let Kim continue. She had, after all, got all of the information out of his so far.
"Who's Joel?" She tried to make it sound like she was interested, so he would spill more.
"My partner. I was in charge, but a different person to my contact gave him information too." he paused, seeing the looks up on their faces, they didn't know this so far, which confused him. "You didn't pick him up with me?" He asked.
"What do you mean?" Kim asked.
"He was in the house too."
Kim looked to Tony, who motioned for her to go outside. The two left and a guard entered to keep Daniel company. "Great work Kim, brilliant work. Now, get Chloé back onto her satellite feed, we need to find this person. I also want you to check all our surfers for a Joel, also, check the aliases too."
Kim nodded, "I'm on it."
Kim went over to her terminal, and began searching through the logs, but five minutes in, she was distracted. She wondered how her dad was doing. She knew he was in bad shape, and wanted to be with him. More importantly, she wanted somebody to be there for him when he came round. She hesitated before picking her phone up. She didn't know what was happening with her dad and Kate, he was so secretive with her. She decided to call anyway, it couldn't hurt, she thought.
After getting through to the Warners Enterprise she was on hold for five minutes, until Kate's familiar voice came on the line. It had a worried tone, after all, she knew something was going on for Kim to be calling her, she just hoped it wasn't Jack.
"Kate? Hi its Kim."
"Hi Kim, what's going on, are you okay?" She asked, both confused and worried now.
"Listen, my dad got pretty hurt today and is at the hospital." Kate felt her heart sink as she herd this. She managed a "Uh huh."
"I shouldn't be doing this but I have to, their is a potential threat on L.A., you need to leave town. My dad has been took somewhere outside L.A. and I was wondering if I could ask you to go see him... I know its a stupid thing to say, and I know I'm bombarding you with information, but its not safe for anyone here, and I want someone to be there with my dad when he comes round, I'm going to be tied up here for a while."
"God Kim...." Kate said, shocked at the news. "Of course I'll go see him.... I just don't know if he will want to see me..." She said, speaking her thoughts instead of thinking them.
"Listen, before you go, I think I better fill you in on what's happened today." She said.
The phone call ended up being over half an hour long. Kim had to let Kate know about Daniel, and Kate asked many questions. Then she got the details and address of Jacks hospital, and before parting, Kate had asked Kim to get out of L.A. as soon as possible, and they hung up assuring each other they would see each other at the hospital at some point.
Kim hung up and sighed, their was still so much to do, she thought. She ran a hand through her weary eyes and began tapping at her keyboard.
Kate was in hyper mode. She was grabbing her essentials from her office, her mobile and purse primarily. She ran out to her car with the directions scribbled down on a piece of scrap paper, gripped tightly in her hand. She got in and drove, her mind bombarding her with questions about the attack on L.A, (should she ring her father?) questions about Jack, his health, their relationship, and most importantly, his brother.
She kept her eyes on the road at all times, but felt so guilty. She understood now, everything with Jack was slotting into place. Marie's involvement in the nuclear bomb had torn her up, but she had insisted on visiting her once a month. Jack and her would argue about this, he thought she should let go, but it was her sister, she couldn't. Eventually the rows about her had become too much, and Jack had claimed he couldn't be with someone who going to let her sister ruin her life; and so she had told him to leave. She had claimed her sister was more important than him, and had kicked him out.
But now she knew why he would get agitated when she would visit Marie, and she understood now, just why he was so cold towards the topic, telling her she would be better off forgetting her. Because of his relationship with his own brother, he couldn't understand why Kate would let Marie hurt her so bad over and over again. She felt guilty, but also relieved too, she now knew why he was so detached from the subject. Still she wondered, why hadn't he told her about Daniel, it would have solved their problems, and probably saved their relationship, before she had ended it.