The deserted-looking warehouse looked cliché to say the least. Jack, Daniel and Teal'c knelt under cover of a recycle yard to the side of the warehouse. There was a fourth member of the expedition, a Special Agent Cindy Manning. Almost instantly, Jack code-named her Butch Cassidy.

It made a twisted sort of sense to everybody. After all, he was referencing the brains behind the illegal operations, and she had certainly been that.

She pointed to some guards. "It looks fairly vacant on the outside, but it's swarming on the inside. You have to take out everyone out here at relatively the same time or you will never get passed the front door."

She pointed to the side of the building. "There are typically three guards to each side. You're each going to have to take four men down, how you do that is up to you."

Jack nodded. "We'll be able to handle it."

"I have to go now. If I don't, it could blow my cover for the rest of the operation."

"Thanks." Daniel said, as she stood.

"Couldn't have been able to do it without you, Butch."

She looked long and hard at all three of them. "Look, I'm not going to pretend that I like military teams who think they're good enough to pull of covert operations, but…you guys must really care about her. Either that or you're so cocky you think you can take over the world." She waited for a response, but she didn't get one. "I guess what I'm trying to say is…good luck."

"We are in your debt."

"Consider it payback for saving the world." She said, before reaching for her gun and running, under cover, back to her vehicle.

"Okay…one of us is going to have to go in there and draw them all out." Jack said, turning back to the situation.

"What?" Daniel asked. "A decoy?"

"Daniel, we can take them, but not if we try it one at a time." He said, determinedly. "You guys stay here. I'm gonna go back to get the car and drive into the middle. I'll make some trouble, and then, you guys come and save my butt…"

Before they could protest, he was gone. "I hate it when he does that." Daniel whispered, watching his friend go off to what could be his death.

"As do I, Daniel Jackson."

A few minutes later, Jack pulled into the parking lot in the state car that they had gotten upon their arrival. Three of the guards walked over to him. Daniel and Teal'c didn't know what he was saying as he had taken off his wire, so they watched even more determinedly. Another two arrived, followed soon by another three. Before long, Jack was surrounded by guards.

"How many are there, Teal'c?"

"I am unable to count them." He said, squinting because of the light.

"So, do we go now, or do we not?"

"I believe impatience would be our undoing, Daniel Jackson." Teal'c said, convincing his friend to stay put, however reluctantly.

They stayed put for a few more moments until, to their horror, Jack was taken inside the compound. Daniel stood up ready for a fight when Teal'c placed one hand on his forearm. "O'Neill is providing us with the perfect opportunity to enter the compound undetected."

"And we're going to have to save them both."

"They will most likely be placed in the same portion of the building."

"What makes you say that?"

"Because when I was First Prime of Apophis, I would be asked to take a prisoner's loved one to them to be used against them in torture."

Daniel's eyes grew wide in horror. "We can't let that happen."

"Indeed."