Lisa was pissed. She was pissed at herself, she was pissed at her captors, and she was pissed that she was back in the same stupid room she had started in. Unfortunately, she now had a cuff on her ankle which was attached to a metal loop on the floor. At least she had her hands free, she thought, though she was unable to go anywhere. They must have left her hands free to work on the harddrive once (if) they had retrieved it. She was honestly surprised they hadn't done this in the first place - it didn't hurt to be underestimated sometimes. Davis noticed a dim light was now on, casting the room in a pulsing blue glow.
Lisa suddenly realized what kind of room this was - it was a freezer. An industrial sized freezer. That explained the door, the lights, and the metal surrounding her. Luckily it wasn't cold - she hoped it no longer worked. That was just what she needed - to be frozen to death. She wasn't fully confident in the intelligence of her captors to ensure it was out of commission, either.
The door opened and Jane stepped through, alone this time and carrying something in her hand. Lisa noticed with great satisfaction that Jane's eye was already swelling shut. Lisa stared at her, waiting for her to talk.
"I'm sorry that got ugly." Jane said, not sounding sorry at all.
"What do you want Jane? I can't figure out this plan that you've enacted. You want me to decrypt a hard drive that you don't even have - that my team has already found and extracted. How does that work?"
Jane stared at Lisa for a moment and then brought the item up to her mouth - that was when Lisa realized Jane had Lisa's com and had probably stolen it when they ambushed the embassy.
"Radioing command, over." Lisa tensed and dread washed over her. Jane repeated, "Radioing Command, Over." Jane smirked at Lisa and said, "I've watched you do this many times, I'm a quick learner".
A loud squeal sounded through the other end as someone answered. "This is command, state your identity. Over." Blackburn's voice came urgently through the com.
Jane smiled and ignored the order for her identity, saying, "Command, we have your team member. In order to have her returned safely, we have demands."
The answer returned immediately. "State your demands." Blackburn said evenly.
Jane smiled at Lisa as she responded, "You will hand over the hard drive you now have in your possession. Your Davis will decrypt it there. You will let us leave with the harddrive. Only then will we return her unharmed."
Davis shook her head at the stupidity of this plan. No way would command give classified and important info over, period, let alone hand it over and then trust that Lisa would be returned safely if she decrypted the drive.
Davis wished with all her might that she could hit Jane in her other eye. How was she to let Bravo know where she was without letting Jane know that she knew? She needed to alert them to the nuclear power plant she had seen from the window. She racked her brain hard - her memory was coming back in pieces but she was still missing most of the last 24 hours. She thought back to the last things she remembered, the conversations with the team. She attempted to filter interactions with Bravo and find something that she could convey secretly. Lisa almost said the answer outloud when she thought of the solution - Chernobyl!
She had been working on ISR of the area, trying to learn everything she could in case things went sideways. Sonny was the only one still in the room and he happened to look over her shoulder at the same time that she flew past what looked like a giant smokestack.
"Well lookie there - a nuclear reactor. Didn't this country learn anything from their neighbors with Chernobyl?"
Lisa remembered rolling her eyes and educating Sonny on the rarity of nuclear disasters.
He had grinned and said, "If you didn't want me to be more paranoid than I already am - you shouldn't have made me watch that mini-series on HBO. You know it gave me all sorts of ideas. We shoulda just stuck with Narcos." Lisa had smiled, put down what she was doing and turned to him.
"I don't think there was much watching, If I remember correctly." Sonny had raised his eyebrows and moved closer. Lisa shook her head and grinned, signally with her hand that she was going to resume her work. He put up both hands in defense and nodded, grinning.
"Roger that, Ensign Davis."
She knew how to tell Sonny the area she was in. If she were to give him the location of the nuclear reactor, he would be able to use ISR and narrow down where she had been taken. Blackburn could check security footage and find out where she was. She only prayed that Blackburn was as predictable as usual in his next step.
"We need proof of life before anything else happens." Blackburn said and Lisa had to hold back a smile. Bingo.
Jane hesitated, clearly not wanting to let Lisa talk to her team.
"I can't make that happen." Jane said, finally.
"If you want your demands met, you will let us talk to Lisa. Right now. Or no deal." Blackburn responded sharply, clearly trying to keep his cool.
"If you don't let him talk to me, they won't negotiate. If they aren't sure I'm alive, this turns into something else."
Jane rolled her eyes and responded, "One sentence."
She came as close as she could while still being out of punching reach from Lisa and prepared to press the button. "Speak when I press the button." Jane said. "You have ten seconds - and if you try to slip any information in, they won't be able to save you."
She pressed the button and Lisa said quickly, "Don't come for me. They have no intentions of following through. Tell Sonny he'll have to finish that show without me. It'll be -" Jane let go of the button immediately and stepped backwards.
"There you go. You heard Ensign Davis and her terrible advice. We'll be in touch about the drop off place in one hour."
Another screech from the com and a new voice, "If you have harmed one hair on her head, I will split you in half. You will -" The moment Lisa heard Sonny's voice, she felt her heart stop. Blackburn must have regained control of the com again because he signed off with, "We will speak in one hour. Davis - hold on."
Jane turned off the com and stared at Lisa. "Looks like you have people who want you back." She said bitterly and turned around, preparing to walk out of the fridge.
She paused and turned, saying, "I knew you and that oaf had something going on. You all thought that we didn't see things - but we did. I watched you - I watched all of you constantly. I learned your habits, your abilities, your skills. I saw how he looked at you when he thought no one was looking. I saw the scandalous hand grazes when you two thought you were alone. Pity he'll never see you again." Jane turned on her heel and left the room.
Davis wasn't shocked by her last remark. She was well aware that hostage situations in foreign countries often went south. Officially, the US never negotiated with terrorists, but she had no doubt that her team would break any rule to help one of their own. It was just a matter of giving them the intel, which Lisa had managed to do successfully. Sonny was smart, a lot smarter than people gave him credit for. He would know that comment meant the reactor which they had just discussed. All they had to do was narrow it down, and all Lisa had to do was stay alive.