The following takes place between 2:00 P.M. and 3:00 P.M.

Everything was set. Soon they may get someone who knew where Ivan Sergey Arkadeyevich may be. They just had to go through Federal Agents to get to him. But their info suggested that most of the people on the inside were unarmed and untrained. The hard part with places like this was getting inside. But, once you were inside you'd have no trouble.

"This is Kiryl, all teams ready?"

"Team Blue, ready."

"Team Red, ready."

"Team Green, ready."

"This is Yellow, go on my signal." Kiryl ordered as he scanned the perimeter and waited for the opportune moment.

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Progress on the device was going well with the updated schedule. What worried Marks was getting the delivery system ready. They could get the device to the destination but they still had yet to figure out how to increase the casualties at the target site. The more the better. The original detonation site was good, but Marks' employers would prefer something better.

His employers had supplied the material and Ivan succeeded in acquiring explosives and getting the material across the border. He was also distracting Jack Bauer, CTU and this Mac Fuchs from them.

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The HAZMAT team arrived and did a more thorough search of the property. The only radioactive items were a black parka, a pair of dirty boots and Kim's jacket which was right against the parka. All three were confiscated and taken for more careful study. As he searched the residence Mac collected Kim's belongings minus the jacket. As he checked the living room he found a hidden compartment in one of the lounge chairs.

All he found inside was a piece of paper with two lines of numbers on it. It was a constant line with too many numbers to be a phone number and it wasn't an address. He turned on his phone as he returned to his vehicle. "Bauer."

"Jack, it's me, Mac," Mac answered. "I've found two sets of numbers at the house. I don't know what they are but maybe they're bank account numbers; you there yet?"

"I just arrived. What are the numbers?" Mac read them out. "Okay, I'll get back to you on that. Get back to CTU and check on Kim for me."

"You got it. Oh, the journals the search team found and two jackets and a pair of boots at the house had trace amounts of radiation on them. I checked with Chloe, Kim is fine; the HAZMAT team said it was only trace amounts. But whatever our friend Ivan is up to can't be good."

"Okay. You how I said we had a few days when things got exciting?"

"Yeah. This one of them?"

"I think so. I'll get back to you."

"Sweet," Mac groaned as he pulled out of the driveway. "Hell of way to start the first day on the job."

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Jack got access to the back rooms of the bank and checked personally with the manager. Neither of the numbers were account numbers. Jack got on the phone to CTU. He meant to get a hold of Chloe but instead got Kyle Jenkins, an assistant analyst under Chloe. "Kyle, I've got a pair on numbers here. Neither I nor Ingram has an idea what they are. Check the files on Barry Landes and Ivan Arkadeyevich for any reference to them. Get back to me if you get anything." He hung up and then called Ingram.

"Fuchs."

"Mac, it's me. Those numbers you gave me weren't account numbers I'm having the files checked to see if we can't figure them out."

"Their probably codes that only Ivan would know." Ingram deduced. "We've gotta find that snake, Jack."

"Are you at CTU yet?"

"I just pulled up. Listen, after giving Kim her stuff I thought I'd question Big Fish and see if he…" an explosion rocked the CTU building and smoke filled the garage causing Ingram to lose control and impact a wall.

"Mac? MAC!" Jack screamed into the phone as he bolted out of the bank and into his vehicle.

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Everyone in the control room was rounded up and bound together. Kim was the last to be found as she tried to escape through a vent in the ceiling. As she was being pulled out the man that was arrested earlier was also pulled out from the interrogation room. "All teams," the masked leader called into his radio. "We have our objective. Begin withdrawal."

Ingram had come to and was crawling through the hole blown in the wall. It deposited him in a rubble strewn corridor not far from the control room. He heard a commotion in the room and entered. When he did one of the masked gunmen in black suits spotted him. He shouted something in Russian and fired. Mac returned fire and killed two of the gunmen.

"Hold your fire, agent!" The leader ordered as he held the blonde he was tying up in front of him. His number two also held Big Fish up in the same manner. "You want this man alive. And I know you wouldn't want anything to happen to one of your own." Ingram poked his head from around a corner and saw Kim being held with a gun to her head. "I have more men surrounding you right now." Mac looked around and saw he wasn't bluffing. "I am a man of my word. You let us walk out of here, no one gets hurt."

"You let her go," Ingram bargained.

"As I said, no one gets hurt. But only after you let us go. She will be released. We're not in the business of kidnapping."

"But you're in the business of smuggling radioactive material?"

"Is that what old Ivan up to? Well we don't care. We do want to find him though. So how about it, comrade?" He pressed the barrel closer to Kim's head. "Blood or no blood. I assure you, if it lowers to that level, she will be the first to die." He knew he couldn't bargain with terrorists but he couldn't sacrifice Kim's life. They had hit CTU like a Kansas tornado and there was no way he could hold them here. So he came around the corner and held his pistol up to show he wouldn't stop them.

"You just let her go."

"We will," they then slowly slinked their way past Mac, no fewer than four automatic rifles were trained on him as they did so. They exited out of the hole and departed the facility.

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When Jack arrived the terrorists' vehicles were gone. He found Mac sulking in the locker room. "They said they'd let her go, Jack," he explained lowly. "I couldn't stop them; there wasn't anything I could've done. If I fought we both would be dead and the entire staff as well. Audrey is fine, as is Manning. Chloe suffered a good knock to her head but she'll pull through." He was then yanked to his feet and slammed into the opposite row of lockers by the irate Jack Bauer.

"You let them take my daughter!" He yelled at the rookie. "You let them take my little girl! The only person that I have left!" Ingram was so ashamed and dishonored by his act that he couldn't bring himself to look Jack in the eye, let alone reply. A moment later, Audrey came in.

"Jack," she said trying to calm him down. "Calm down, Jack. Kim is fine. She's on the phone right now." Jack turned to her as Ingram let out a deep sigh. Jack dropped the agent back to his feet and took the phone from Audrey and went out into the hall.

"Sweetheart, are you alright?" He asked immediately.

"I'm fine dad," Kim responded with traffic in the background. "They let me go. I'm not far from CTU."

On the street, Kim didn't know she was being watched.

"I'll come get you, sweetheart," Jack promised. "No one will hurt you again. Ingram shouldn't…"

"He didn't have a choice, dad," Kim found herself defending a total stranger. "He did it to save our lives. I don't…AHH! DAD!"

"Kim!" Jack shouted into the phone.

"If you want your daughter back," Ivan's voice came back over the line, "give up Mac Fuchs. I'll call you, Jack." The line went dead before Jack could reply.

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"Let me go!" Kim shouted as her former fiancée forced her into a red van.

"Keep quiet!" Ivan ordered as Kim was bound and gagged in the back seat.

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