Jack stood still with the gun firmly planted in his hands, his finger gently resting on the trigger. He herd the footsteps get louder as he held his breath and waited for whoever it was to show themselves. He squinted through the darkness as the room was only lit by a single square window on the far end of the room. He herd laughter as the door opened slowly. He could see two shadows approaching.

"Federal agent get against the wall now!"

"Woa man chill, what you shoutin for?!" Came Jay's voice, making Jack frown, but he still held his gun out, aimed at them.

The two men stepped into the light and Jack saw that the man with him had blood coming from his nose and lip. It was Beanie. He looked angrily at Jay. They were , after all, and maybe he could use Jays presence to his advantage. They entered the room fully and Jack ordered the man against the wall, while sending Jay off to find something to tie him and the younger man up with. He would keep watch. Jack watched as the young man and Beanie both faced the wall at other sides of the room, unable to communicate to one another.

He considered which way to interrogate Beanie. He had been planning to use threats, but now that Jay had roughed him up he would have to continue that way. If the pain suddenly stopped he would feel in control, and would begin to doubt that they had the authority to hurt him. But Jack didn't need authority for anything, and he wasn't going to stop until he knew what they were planning, and where. If Beanie didn't co-operate, he would hurt him.

Jay sauntered back into the room, a bundle of grey wire in both hands as he tried not to drop it. He set it down on the floor and Jack got to work right away, cutting pieces off with his knife. He tied the man on the floor up while he was still out cold, before moving on to the kid and Beanie. He made sure there hands were tightly secured behind there backs before taking them back into the room where the other two guys were still handcuffed. He decided that the pressure of being before his peers would probably be enough to make him talk. Either that or it would go the other way and make him close up.

Jay watched Jack impressed, following him into the room like a lost sheep. The wide grin was still spread over his face as he saw the four men now sat on the floor facing them, after following Jacks instructions. Beanie was sat against a different wall which was supposed to make him feel uncomfortable, a simple interrogation tactic but it was surprising how well it worked. The three guys from before still looked scared, and he had no doubts that they weren't even involved in this. They were probably in the wrong place at the wrong time, Jack thought. But that was tough, they were there to be used to his advantage now.

Jack wandered around the room biding his time to sweat Beanie out, before moving over and crouching down before him, invading his personal space and looking him directly in the eye until the kid looked away.

"So Charles, you going to tell me what's going on?"

The information he held has its desired effect as the four men including Jay watched him with curious expressions while Beanies eyes widened, before he tried to play it off as nothing.

"So you know my name?"

"I know more than your name Mr. Weatherby. I know all about your past, the private school you attended before you started dealing, the houses you lived in before you ended up here in LA," Jack paused before adding a slight grin to his face as he continued, "All about your three younger sisters, and your widowed mother."

He paused as he watched him start to shift around uncomfortably on the floor, the wire cutting into his wrists as he did so. He was trying to get away, but there was no chance of him getting the wire off, never mind escaping.

"So, now we've got that up in the air, I'm going to be blunt here Charles. I don't have a lot of time to waste here asking you questions, so I want you to tell me about the explosives you are planning on detonating in the cathedral later today."

Beanie looked away trying not to panic, but the look of confusion and shock, even fear on the other three's faces told him they didn't know about this, and they certainly didn't look like they would condone it.

"You know, we have linked you to the KKK. You know how much time you can do for that, even if we stop this thing? Do you know how many of the activities which are unrelated to you will still be pinned on you? Never mind after you kill the thousands of Negro's today. If you don't get lethal injection life is the best your going to be offered. And given the number of coloured occupants and guards in prison, along with the white people who don't like racists, you may wish you got the death penalty after all."

Jack knew he was exaggerating now, but he could see it was working on Charles. He could almost see the cogs turning in his head as he tried to figure the best way out of his situation. Jack decided that the best thing to do would be to push him, giving him no time to organise his thoughts. Then there was more chance of him giving in easily.

"So, let me tell you what's gonna happen. You can tell me about this bomb, how I can stop it - all off the record. I let you walk right out of here and we will not cross paths again. You don't, and you will wish you did this the easy way. I will beat the sh!t out of you until I bore of that, then I will have a good friend of mine go pick up your mother, bring her here, there's already a car watching here. We can make her life misery, then you will tell us, or we can always go onto the sisters. After that you and these three friends will be escorted to the Counter Terrorist Unit where all of you will be interrogated by people much less friendly then me. And I guarantee you, you will all be tried for terrorist acts and suspected to be involved with the KKK. We all know how well that will go down in court, if any of you even make it to court."

"What the hell, we aint no KKK dude what the hell are you talking about?" Yelled one of the three on the other side of the room, sweating with fear. Jack smiled to himself.

"It doesn't matter if you are or not. The fact that you are here with a suspected member is all we need. For all we know you may be involved."

Jack had to stop himself for laughing at the kids foolishness, all four of them, well, five really. Jay was stood with his mouth open in both shock and awe. They didn't realise that he was making this up as he went along.

"Beanie what the hell? He serious? Are you down with the KKK man you didn't tell us nothing about this?"

Jack didn't give Beanie to respond, and by the look on his face he was having a hard time keeping up with this conversation. He was pale from fear of what was going to happen to him. Jack could easily tell that he was going to talk. He moved over to him and pulled him to his feet by the mans baggy jumper and walked him into the next room whilst instructing Jay to watch the other three. Jack knew that he had to be kind to the kid now, act like he wants to help him. Then he would feel safe, and hopefully tell him what the hell is going on.

"Charles your a smart guy, I can see that. Your record shows that this is going to be the first offence of this magnitude. I'm giving you a chance to prevent it. I want to help you, but I can only do that if you tell me that the hell is going to happen."

"If... if I do, then... ah ...... I need time to think, just let me think!" He yelled, stress pouring from him. He was going to crack.

"I don't have time. These people could be dead any minute. Then its too late for you as well as those innocent people. We both know what will happen to you if this goes down."

"All right," he whispered, pacing with his hands still behind his back, trying to order his thoughts but it was hard when his eyes kept locking onto his friend on the floor from earlier. "I aint with the KKK man, I didn't even know they were still running. I swear to Christ I aint involved with that sh!t."

"Just prove that to me Charles, that's all I'm asking."

"There's a bomb. Its going to go off I a couple of hours. In the bell tower."

"How do you know this?"

"I helped make the device."

"Okay..." Jack muttered thinking aloud. "I'm going to call my contact. Sit down on the floor, don't move a muscle."

Jack wondered back into the main room to check on Jay while pulling out his cell and ringing Tony.

"Almeida."

"Tony its Jack."

"Jack what the hell are you doing now?"

"Listen, I have information on the bomb-"

"We know where the bomb is Jack, we have teams on the way."

"What information did the people give you?" Jack asked curiously.

He herd Tony sigh before he spoke. "There's a man in the lower region of the cathedral. He is going to detonate the bomb when the place is full. He has a trigger device so we are going to try grab him discretely, or disarm the bomb before he has the chance to push the button."

"Tony I'm going to call you back."

Jack hung up the phone and thought about the new information, he would question Charles, see if the information corresponded. He believed what the guy had told him, but it could still be a lie so the bomb can go off.

Jack walked back into the room and Beanie was right where he left him.

"Tell me about the trigger device."

Jack knew he had caught him off guard with his question, the shock in his eyes showed him. The guy hadn't been expecting him to know about this.

"Listen, if I tell you this, you have got to give my family protection. If they find out I leaked this information, which is likely due to the four people sat in the other room, I'm dead. My sisters are dead, and my mothers dead. You protect them, I'll help you stop the bomb. That's a pretty good deal Jack don't you think?"

Jack felt sorry for the kid, he recognised the worry as he spoke of his family. He was so consumed with the kids fear that he didn't pick up on the fact that he had never told him his name.