The following takes place between 3:00 P.M. and 4:00 P.M.
Jack briefed Manning, Audrey and the others that Ivan now has his daughter. It seemed an especially hard blow to Ingram since it was his nemesis Ivan who now had Kim. He didn't know what Ivan's game was but he wasn't going to let him get away with it. He approached Jack about it.
"Jack something's not adding up," he explained as damage crews cleared the rubble away and the intermittent power was restored. "Ivan doesn't act this way. It's way outside his MO."
"So is everything that happens around here, Agent Fuchs," he was reduced to a last name basis now. "And unless you have anything that can get my daughter back you get the hell out of here and back to your apartment. That's an order." Shot down, Ingram had no choice but to leave.
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Kim huddled in the corner of the van as the man she once knew as Barry watched her from the front with a gun in his hand. The last few hours were getting to be too much. It was too much like when she was kidnapped by the men who wanted revenge on her father.
"Jack," Manning came over to the Director of Field Ops. "We just ID'd the two dead gunmen; they're members of the Russian Mafia. The camera's show at least a dozen armed men raiding the facility and removing Mr. Rivers."
"Why would they want him?" Jack wondered.
"Rivers has no connection with the mafia as far as we know."
"But Ivan does," Jack surmised. "The mafia must've found out about Rivers and grabbed him."
"But why?"
"Because they think he will lead them to Ivan and they want him dead."
"Okay, we can use this," Manning said as they walked to his office. "We can get in contact with the FBI and get whatever information we can on the Mafia. Maybe we can follow them to Ivan, get Kim back and stop Ivan from whatever he's up to." He then looked around the control room. "Where's Ingram?"
"He let the Mafia attackers go and take my daughter in the process so I sent him home."
"Well get him back, Jack!" Manning ordered. "He knows this dirt bag more than anyone here. He's a prime source of intel on this bastard. You get him back here, Jack!" Manning then stormed off to his office.
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Audrey checked in on Chloe in the clinic. She had a mild concussion but was not in any danger. However, she wouldn't be able to work for several days and she was expected to be unconscious for the next few hours. She heard Jack berate Ingram and also watched him send the rookie packing. He was extremely harsh on the new agent. 'But then his daughter was just kidnapped,' Audrey deduced. Any father would be angry. Jack just needed to get himself under control and cut Mac some slack.
In his office, as workers replaced the glass partitions Jack glanced over at the phone. Sure he was still angry at Ingram but he was beginning to think clearly again. The kid didn't have a choice. He knew that better now after seeing the security tapes. But still…his daughter was still out there. Finally he gave in and picked up the phone.
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Ingram disconnected his home phone. He was feeling dishonored and ashamed. He respected Jack and felt some kind of bond to him. But now Jack didn't trust him and blamed him for his daughters kidnap. He sat on his futon and thought over the incident. If he had fought back everyone would've been dead. He was in a no-win situation. And from what Jack had told everyone, the Russians let her go as true to their word. It was that snake Ivan that…
"Ivan," Mac realized. The attackers weren't working for Ivan they had to be Mafia. It's the only explanation. He got off the sofa and he got on his computer. He still had a few contacts in Border Patrol and could get access to Ivan's files. All he would need is a name that would lead him to the mafia and hopefully Ivan and Kim.
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"Marks."
"It's Ivan," Ivan called his employer. "I have the girl. This will certainly keep CTU focused on me. Jack Bauer will not let anything happen to his daughter."
"And what about Fuchs?"
"He'll also be involved."
"Good. Take the girl to the safe house. I will meet you there."
"Understood." And they hung up.
"Michael," Marks called to one of his men. "Contact our insider. I have something that'll keep CTU busy for the next few hours." He laid it out simply. "By the time they figure out it was a ruse, they'll be working damage control." On the TV in the background the pre-game show for a college football game was on mute.
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It took him a while to get the files on his home computer but Ingram was able to do it. The local Russian Mafia was small compared to the size of the city. Its suspected boss was a man named Kolya Bratchenko, ex-KGB. No confirmed address was given but a few good ones were there.
The punch landed hard on Rivers' face. Now both cheeks and both eyes were bruised and cut. A quick kick to the gut followed. "Where is your supplier?" Kiryl demanded to know.
"I swear," Big Fish pleaded. "I don't know. He was going to give me a place where he would hand over the gats and I'd pay him the money. But the meeting was blown by some G-men. I swear I don't know where he…" he was forcibly grabbed by the throat.
"Then how do you contact him?"
"My…ph-phone," he coughed. "Has his number…under Strangelove! That's all I know! I swear man!" He was released and left in the metal room all by himself. Outside Kiryl pulled out his own phone and observed Rivers'.
"Kiryl, give me good news," Kolya said over the line.
"I sure will. We can track Ivan's position."
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"Jack," Audrey came in his office with a rush. "Have you spoken with Ingram yet?"
"His phone at home is disconnected and he's turned his cell off," Jack said. "I think I pushed him a little too hard."
"You've got to see this," she laid a photograph on the table. It was a picture of Ingram meeting with a man wearing dark glasses. "Jenkins pulled this off one of the files related to the Mafia. It was taken from an unspecified surveillance operation. We don't know when the photo was taken but we do know that it's Mac and the other man is Kolya Bratchenko, the leader of the Russian Mafia in LA."
"What?"
"Ingram is a mole, he works for them."
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Okay he had a good guess of where he could find Kolya. But he would need help and Jack's approval before he did anything. But before that he needed to find where Kim was being held. He turned his phone back on and called Jack.
"Bauer."
"Jack," Mac said over the phone unknowing that he was suspected of treason. "I think I may be able to find a way to get Kim back."
"How so?" Jack asked as he signaled Audrey and Jenkins to start the trace. "Where are you?"
"I'm just leaving my apartment; I'm coming back to CTU. I think I may have a plan."
"Come in and explain it to me."
"On my way." He hung up without knowing that he had been set up.
"When he arrives I want him placed under restraint," Jack asked of Manning.
"He'll be arrested when he exits the elevator," Curtis promised.
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