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CTU
Michelle
watches Tony hastily walk away. She thinks about checking his
terminal to see where he's going to. But George is still standing
beside her. Nothing much she can do to help without him noticing. And
Tony didn't look like he wanted to share that information with George
at this point.
She starts wondering about Mason. Didn't he even notice the mess this place was in since the short-circuit? It was just like him to only see what he wanted to see.
And he's still not moving from her side. A little distraction would be nice now. Where's Lisa? She glances around, but doesn't see her. Michelle quickly re-routes her phone line to her cell phone and gets up, slipping the phone into her pocket.
"George, I'm going to IT for a minute. Lisa is in her office, if you want to talk to her." And with that, she turns and walks out of the office, in search of a quiet place to take Tony's call.
"Yeah, but I don't want... to talk to her... sheesh" George lets his voice trail off as Michelle walks away. Of course Lisa is probably up-to-date and has the information he needs but does he want to deal with that now? He'd rather deal with Michelle. At least she's nice.
"Oh, you're back. I really could use your office. I need phone access and an extra computer.", an all too familiar voice behind him sounds.
Apparently the gods are against him today. George rolls his eyes before facing Lisa. "Fine, Lisa. Go upstairs, take the phone, take the computer, take the office. Take whatever you want. You've done that with everything else in my life."
"Oh, grow up." She cannot believe they're having this conversation now. "Do your job and run this office. Some computers still aren't up so communication is a problem. Jack Bauer's daughter is in trouble, all I'm doing is helping to find her."
"I bet that's all you're doing." George feels the sting of Lisa's hand before he sees it.
CTU Helicopter
"Agent
Bauer!" Terry the pilot gets Jack's attention and is pointing
out the window. "We're over the canyon ridge."
Kevin's peering outside with binoculars. "I can make out a building through the trees. And," he takes a moment, "off to the left about 500 yards... a possible clearing. We could land there."
Jack grabs binoculars as well. "Terry, fly a circle over the compound, let us see what we're dealing with here."
somewhere in LA
A man
walks out of a house in Downtown LA, looks around and starts walking
to a car, taking large steps and looking over his shoulder with
almost every step. As he finally gets in, he closes his eyes for a
moment and breathes a sigh of relief. Then he starts the car, and
after looking around to all sides, drives off.
Tony's car
Tony has succeeded in escaping the confines of CTU without many people noticing. He is on the road now, traffic is getting heavy so he's going to have to take the back roads.
CTU
George clears his throat. All
eyes around the room are focused on him. Not Lisa, him. "Why
don't we take this upstairs?" He says in a low voice but doesn't
wait for a response to go to his office.
Lisa slams the door to his office behind her, effectively shattering the silence that normally allows the CTU staff to work calmly. "What is your problem? We can't work together without dragging up the past!"
"No, Lisa! No, we can't!" Even George is surprised by his response. He hadn't expected to get loud or emotional today. "This has never been about you not getting this job, though by rights it should have been yours. It's always been about you and Jack Bauer-"
Lisa's face is red with anger, "You son of a-"
"Don't deny it! Back then, the three of us," George waves his hand and shakes his head, "it was always a game! You flirting with a married man, me trying my best to catch your attention. How'd I do it? Did you finally give up? Because I can't imagine it taking too much to get Jack! Heck, he had an affair with the woman who ended up killing his wife!"
"I cannot believe you." Lisa has gone from anger to resentment to utter disbelief. "This is what you've been hanging onto? You think that I went out with you because of Jack?" Now she is the one shaking her head and rolling her eyes. The three of them had spent so much time together, she thought she knew George better than this. "You have no self-confidence."
George's head shoots up. Lisa continues. "I said yes to you the first time you asked me out, you idiot. If you weren't so stubborn and could see past your own mistakes, maybe -"
"What? Maybe what? I didn't end this, Lisa, you did! The minute I told you about Teri dying, you were on the phone trying to call Jack! You think I was going to hang around while you went after him again? And you know I didn't even want this job! Maybe Hammond knows about your little plan to get Jack back and that's why he knew better than to put you here!"
That was it. There was no use in talking to this man. "I'm done. Rant all you want, George. I'm not talking to you anymore."
George follows Lisa as she walks out and down the stairs. "Run away like you always do! Run back to your boyfriend! Just make sure you don't get caught in the cross fire!" This time, it's George who slams his office door behind Lisa.
CTU Helicopter
"Dropping
to 5000 feet." Terry takes them down.
"I've got two buildings, Jack." Kevin points them out, "But there's a depression in the ground. Like an explosion of some sort maybe."
"Terry, circle to the large building in front.", Jack tells the pilot.
As the chopper comes around, the scene comes into focus. Vehicles are parked and... "What the hell happened here?", Kevin utters.
Hospital
Kim
is drifting in and out of sleep. She can see the form of someone in
the room. "D...dad?" Where is he? He should be here by now.
Kim falls back to sleep wandering why her father hasn't talked to her
yet.
CTU
Andre leaves his work station to find
Michelle. He watched her walk down a corridor and she has yet to
return. After the incident that just occurred, she's the one he
believes has the level head on her shoulder.
"Michelle?" When he sees her, Andre calls out to get her attention, "People are starting to lose it out here. We need something to go on."
Michelle: "Andre, I just need a few minutes, I'll be right there." What's taking Tony so long? And where's Catherine? She decides to find out.
"Uhm, Andre, listen, can you do me a favor? Try to find Catherine. I haven't seen her since the paramedics left. I thought she was alright, but I'm starting to wander. Okay? I'll be right with you." and having said that, she turns around and goes to the bathroom, seemingly the only quiet place to take a confidential phone call around here. Call, Tony. Call!
CTU Helicopter
Jack glances around.
"This place has been torched." Fire, corpses, vehicles,
everywhere you look. He signals to the pilot to lower the chopper.
"Terry, I need you to hover over the ground, let us jump off,
then I want you back in the air, surveying the area. Whatever
happened out here, there still may be people to deal with! Scan the
surroundings!" Terry nods and gives Jack the thumbs up sign.
Jack tries contacting Michelle on the radio, but she doesn't respond. He calls up Lisa.
"Lisa, we need a back up team out here now! Looks like the FBI has been ambushed." Jack's face turns sour at her reply. "I don't care how you get passed George, just do it, please!"
The helicopter is now hovering just inches over the ground. Jack glances at Kevin. "Ready?" He is. "Let's go."
Jack and Kevin make the jump and immediately run for cover. They try to secure the area, while the chopper rises back up in the air.
Tony's car
Finally,
Tony hears the beep that lets him know he's getting a clear signal.
He dials CTU. Michelle picks up on the other end. "Hey. Sorry
about just leaving like that but I've got no time here. Someone
called and told me to meet them at 333 South Spring Street. I've
pulled it up on my system and it is what the person said it is - a
parking garage. The only problem is there's no satellite feed for the
area so I'm in the dark about what surrounds it other than it's in a
public place. I didn't get much else other than they had something to
tell me about today's events."
He's on Union Drive now, he makes a turn off to Wilshire Blvd, that should take him close to the vicinity he's supposed to be in. "I know you've got a lot on your plate right now and, to be perfectly honest, I'm not sure who to trust or who to believe. Right now I'm just going on a wing and a prayer. Can you give me anything about this location? Has Jack made contact?"
Michelle is relieved to finally hear Tony's voice. As for Jack... "Yeah. They should be closing in on the location now."
She's not going to tell him about Codis. Not yet. "I don't think George knows what's going on yet." She wants to ask him what to tell George when he starts asking questions, but lets go. Tony should stay focused on what he's doing, in case something goes wrong at the meeting point. "I'll see what I can find out about that location. Anything else you want me to do?...Okay. I'll get in touch with you." She exits the bathroom and starts heading towards the office again.
Nick's compound
The carnage that took place earlier is still clear as Kevin and Jack carefully pick their way through the bodies and debris.
"The place looks clear, Jack," Terry radios from the chopper, "The outbuilding's door is open but I see no movement. There's smoke up the hill a ways. I'm going in for a better look."
Kevin checks for badges and id's. "FBI - at least ten, so far." From his viewpoint, he can see a mess inside the compound. "Looks like more bodies inside."
CTU
Go around George.
Lisa just wants to cry - and that's something she never wants to do.
She should be out there helping to find Kim but she's stuck at CTU
being yelled at and having to do work on the sly.
No time to waste. She takes a deep breath. Using the passwords she skimmed, Lisa accesses backup units and determines which would be the quickest to mobilize. Calling up the C Team leader, "Hi, this is Agent Lisa Elliott. I'm working with Jack Bauer on an assignment. He needs your backup team in place asap in the area of Tujunga Canyon. Let me get you the coordinates."
She downloads the information to the leader. "34d 16'39.11''North, 118d 19'58.27''West. You got that? Yes, George Mason has authorized this mission. I'll be following your progress. You can reach either me or Michelle Dessler at this number. She's working the same assignment today. Thanks."
Lisa contacts Jack next. "Jack, C Team is mobilizing. They're within ten miles of the compound and will bring snipers with them." She takes a deep breath, "How are you doing out there? Anything to show Kim was there?"
Hideout
Jack
is glad to hear about back up. He radios back to her: "Okay,
thanks Lisa."
He continues to make his way to the main house, slowly, gun drawn, eyes scanning the area. "Looks like the entire FBI team is dead. Nothing on Kim yet. Hold on a sec." Jack walks over to a uniformed corpse. Navy? This guy is not FBI. But if the Petrovs are part of this, he most likely isn't an American soldier, either.
"Lisa, get me Michelle... What do you mean she's not there?... Okay listen, she gave me a name earlier, an ex-marine. Mark Codis. Have her cross-check it with anyone in the Navy. Likely in a high rank. I have this feeling that the Petrovs have got inside help within the military... Thanks. Look, I gotta go. Get back to me when you've got something."
He turns the radio off. This place still isn't cleared. Whoever pulled the trigger last, might still be out there and they could be walking right in front of his gunbarrel.
CTU
A phone call is put through to
George's office.
"No, I didn't authorize any mission concerning C Team and back up for Jack Bauer." George listens and then suddenly everything is clear. "Really? And she gave you the authorization code? Uh huh... Thank you very much."
The
Compound
Kevin clears a path from the front entrance to the
back. "Jack, we've got a road to the next building. I can see it
from here. Do you want me to proceed?" He can hear vehicles
approaching. Friend or foe? "Did you get back up?"
Backup? Already? "Yes, I did, but I only spoke to Lisa a couple of minutes ago. This might be too soon. We have to assume these vehicles are not CTU. Try to stay covered."
This distraction caused them to stay in plain view for a few seconds too long. A bullet hits the ground just inches away from them. They're startled for just a split second, but dive behind a burning van immediately. "Kevin, you OK?" Kevin nods. Just then, a voice resounds out of nowhere.
"JACK! JACK BAUER! Get out of there and show yourself or your partner dies."
Jack doesn't move except he glances at Kevin, and then tries scanning the area to locate the shooter. He sees no-one. If this guy still aimed at them, there's only one side he could be located at. But the shooter is well hidden.
"Come on, Jack, I don't have all day!", the voice resounds again.
CTU
Lisa
sprints from her location to find Michelle, who she bumps into -
literally as she putting away her cell. "There you are!"
For a moment, a smile crosses her face as she's relieved.
"Jack's on the ground. The FBI team has been taken out. He wants you to do some checking on a name you gave him earlier." She consults her notes, "A Mark Codis. Cross-check the name with high-ranking Navy officials and get back with me as soon as you can."
Michelle nods "Okay." Walking back to her desk, she can't help wondering... First the Marines, now the Navy, how high up does this thing actually go? She wants to tell Jack about the source Tony went to meet, but reconsiders. It will just distract him and he can't do anything about it.
But she is going to try and help Tony out. He said there was no satellite feed. But maybe she will be able to find it through the NSA. She logs in and bingo! She's in. "Okay, 333 South Spring Street... Show me what you've got..."
The Garage
Tony's
pulling up to the said parking garage. He doesn't like the looks of
things - it's not as out in the open as he thought. He makes a quick
phone call to Michelle as he's the only one around. "Michelle,
I'm here and waiting. You have anything yet?"
The
Compound
Kevin doesn't chance a move but keeps his eyes going
in all directions. He'll gladly work with the hidden person if it
gets them any information. "We don't have all day either! What
do you want? We aren't here to play games!"
Another shot, this one closer. Kevin winces at the same time Jack does. "Can't get a direction!" He warns Jack. "Maybe... far left?"
The voice sounds again: "I'm not playing games either. Come on, Jack. I really only want you, but I have no problem with sending your partner to hell as well."
He fires another shot, even closer to the van, now just inches away from Kevin. "The next one won't miss, Bauer!"
The voice of the shooter seems to be coming from all sides, through loudspeakers surrounding the area. It is impossible to tell where it's coming from. Jack remembers the chopper has heat sensors and radios Terry to fly back and try to locate the sniper.
He then glances at Kevin for a second and shouts: "Okay! I'm coming out!"
CTU
Michelle is checking the satellite
feed from the NSA server. To Tony: "Uh, yes. I accessed the NSA
satellite feed. The area seems to be clean, but the pictures I've got
are two hours old. You'll have to be careful, there are a lot of
places people could hide at. I'll try to get into their surveillance
system and check out the garage itself. That's the best I can do for
now. Keep this line open, I'll get back to you."
a car
downtown
The man we saw drive off earlier, is still in his
car, we recognize he is in the same area as Tony. Soon he closes in
on the garage. He stops the car and looks around very carefully
before entering the garage and driving down to the lower level.
CTU Medical
Andre
had gone on a quest. "Catherine...?" He approaches a nurse
who is giving him a look but then points him to a room off to the
side. "She's fine. You can go and see her."
"Hey!" He brightly greets his colleague. "Man you missed a show up there." There are a few stitches across her cheek. Blood spots dot her neck. "The boss man got into it with the other lady who came in today." Andre chuckles softly, though he's really just nervous. "You feelin' okay, Cath? My CP sparked but didn't blow like yours."
"Yes, I'm alright. I just had to get myself checked. Protocol, you know. But they think I'm okay to go back to work, so why don't we just head over there." She doesn't bother to smile, the stiches would just hurt anyway.
the
garage
Tony catches movement in his rearview mirror. Someone
or something is coming in, it's time to proceed with caution. He
waits and watches the car come to a slow crawl before he flashes his
lights twice then opens his car door.
But he doesn't get out. Tony, weapon secure in his hand, waits for a sign.
The man in the car pulls up on the other end of the garage driveway, looks around and cautiously begins walking towards Tony's car.
the
compound
Jack is now up on his feet and slowly walking away
from Kevin and out into the open.
"That's a good boy." , the voice sounds again. "Now get down on your knees. Hands behind your head."
Jack complies. Just then, another shot.
Jack turns his head in shock to see Kevin fall to the ground. "NOOOOO!"
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