Lisbon is trying to gain a hold on reality, but the fog is strong and inviting. Her limbs feel heavy and she's unable to move them. She tries to make sense of what is going on and to fight her way through but the fogginess beckons and its hold is too strong…
Jane has the siren and the lights going and is driving at a frightening speed, trying to makes as much progress as possible while on the highway before hitting more congested traffic. His passengers are holding on to their stomachs for dear life. He's not expecting to come upon the kidnappers, they will have found a different, less travelled route, now that they know they have the attention of the police force. They may even change vehicles. This will be to Jane's advantage and he wants to make the best use of it. He's quickly explained his reasoning to the team and he's pretty certain that they will get there first. The team hope to get there in one piece. Cho calls Bertram.
As they enter the lobby of CBI headquarters they're pleased to see that their instructions are being followed. The building's being emptied of non essential personnel. Cho and Rigsby stay to oversee the evacuation and to check that the cops on security understand what they have to do. Jane and Van Pelt go upstairs to the bullpen where Jonathon Broardman is there to meet them.
"Good to see you walking."
"Thank you for all you did for me, I owe you a lot."
"Just doing my job, now why am I here?"
"The men who kidnapped me have taken Lisbon, and I believe that they intend to strap a bomb on her and bring her here. We are evacuating the building and security have instructions to let her through."
"What makes you think they're bringing her here."
"The man behind this has a grudge against us, as we caught him and he's now spending the rest of his life in prison. He holds Lisbon personally responsible because she refused to give up her investigation of him, when everyone was telling her to back down. He's a showman at heart and this way he takes us all down. Your job is to discover where the bomb is and defuse it as quickly as possible. I suspect it will be on a timer, but it will be small and undetectable to Lisbon, as she wouldn't enter the building and endanger other people's lives on purpose.
As Lisbon wakes up once more she's aware of the sounds traffic and people. She comes to realise that she's lying on the ground. Her eyes are heavy and she struggles to open them. Suddenly the memory of what happened as she left the restroom come rushing back to her and her eyes shoot open. She's staring at the dark sky. As she sits up she's hit by a bout of dizziness, and she holds still a moment while it passes. When her head is clear she looks at her surroundings and all she sees are tall bushes. After her experience with the dizziness she takes it slowly as she stands up. She's relieved and puzzled to find that she's completely unhurt. There is a gap in the bushes, when she squeezes through she realises where she is. She's back in Sacramento and just a block away from headquarters. She looks for her phone but it's not there and so starts walking. She looks at her watch to see how long it's been since her abduction, it says only an hour, but it's dark, her watch must have stopped, so much for the repair job, she thinks ruefully. As she makes her way to headquarters to tries to make sense of what has happened. Why was she taken and then dropped off, back in Sacramento unhurt. It didn't make sense, there must be a reason, but her drugged mind is finding it hard to put the components together. She decides to let it go as she's sure Jane will figure it out. Jane! Perhaps her abduction was part of some scheme to get him. Maybe they've taken him somewhere else, maybe they...she starts to run, ignoring the pounding in her head that it causes. She's praying that Jane is all right, that nothing has happened to him, that Volker hasn't succeeded on the third time. She reaches headquarters and gets through security quickly, she's too distracted to notice the looks that are coming her way. As soon as she is in the elevator the building is shut down.
Jane puts down the phone and says out loud what everyone understood from his side of the phone call.
"She's on her way up. They said she seemed anxious and in a hurry, but there was no hesitation about entering the building. I'm certain she doesn't know."
"You could be wrong Jane."
Jane turns to Van Pelt and looks at her for a beat.
"I hope I am, I really hope I am. Let me meet her first."
Jonathon objects.
"No way, you stay far away from her until we know for sure what's going on. I didn't save your life once, just for you to die here. You should all leave now."
His words take Jane back to when he was in the car and begging Lisbon to leave.
"I know, I just want to prepare her."
They hear the elevator ping and Jane quickly ducks out of the office with Jonathon shouting after him.
"Jane your all right."
Jane gives a quick assessment of Lisbon, she doesn't look harmed in anyway, which only makes him more certain of his theory. From her words and the look of relief on her face, he understands that because she isn't hurt, she thought that he was. He takes her by the elbow.
"I'm fine Lisbon, Listen I need you to stay calm and listen carefu..."
Lisbon interrupts him.
"Broardman what are you doing here?"