"You take the ride. You pay the price." - Simon Curtis, Soul 4 Sale
Mike and Officer Simons make their way along the west side of the church. When Simons decides to speak. "So, you've met Joe Carroll, right?" she asks the question so quietly that Mike isn't sure if he heard a hit of awe or not in her voice.
"Yeah," he answers, peeking into one of the windows. Seeing no one, Mike continues, "not an experience I care to repeat."
"We don't always get what we want."
Mike turns just in time to see Simons swing her gun. The butt of the gun smacking the side of his head. Mike falls to the ground. Disoriented, he tries to get up, only for Simons to hit him again. This time, Mike stays down unconscious.
Simons takes his gun, then drags Mike into the church, bringing him to Joe, just as Joe had instructed.
Ryan and Ryker moved around the east side of the building fairly easily. Each window they check is empty, no followers, no civilians, no preachers, no Joe. Their foots steps silent in the snow, Ryan begins to wonder where everyone is, when an uneasy feeling takes hold of him. The cold metal of a gun at the base of his neck gives him alarm.
"You're going to do exactly as I say or I'll kill you." Ryker's voice is hauntingly serious. If it had been any other situation, Ryan might have believed the guy, but he was just another one of Joe's followers.
Ryan put his hands up in false surrender. "You can't kill me," he says just as seriously as Ryker. Ryan turned to face the man, "Joe won't let you."
"You really believe that?" Ryan didn't need to, the shake of Ryker's hand told him that he right. Joe wanted Ryan alive.
Seeing his chance, Ryan knocked the gun out of Ryker's hold. Ryker watched as the gun the fell to the snow and he was met with the muzzle of Ryan's gun. "Now, you're going to do what I tell you or I'm going to kill. And trust me," Ryan pushed Ryker back towards the cars, "no one is stopping me from pulling this trigger."