A/N. Thank you for the reviews for the last chapter, i'm glad people liked seeing Molly get one over on Alex. There is no action in this chapter, but it is building towards the rescue, which i am currently working on and hope to have up at the weekend. I warn you though it's my work's Christmas party on Saturday (in November strange i know!!) so it might not be until Monday lol. Enjoy. :)

Chapter 31.

Jack had been watching Molly in the interrogation room with Alex. He was in the room behind the one way mirror with General Andrews. He had started to worry at one point that Alex was getting to her, and that he might have to go in. Jack knew though that this course of action would cause Alex to clam up completely. The small smile that he saw Molly direct at him made him relax slightly, and when she finally got the information and Alex realised he had been had, Jack couldn't help but laugh. The look of complete horror on Alex's face and his cries of frustration as Molly walked out of the room were a picture. Jack hurried out of the room and met Molly in the corridor, she was leaning against the wall, smiling.

'I think from now on, I'm going to let you interrogate all our suspects' said Jack grinning.

'I don't really think you could call that an interrogation,' said Molly still smiling. 'God it felt good though, did you see his face when he realised I'd tricked him.'

'Yeah, it was a picture. I'm thinking I might have to get a copy of the CCTV footage from that room, the others should see it. I'm proud of what you did in there, you got the information we needed and didn't let him get under your skin.'

'He was starting too, but I just focused on Jess.' Molly answered, her smile fading when she thought about Jess. Jack reached out and placed a hand on her shoulder.

'Everything is going to work out. Let's get back to the Hub, I'll ring Ianto on the way to give him the information, ok.

Molly just nodded her head. General Andrews then came out of the other room and joined them. 'Well done, Miss Jameson' he said. 'You have just got more information out of him in the short time you were in there, than anyone else that has ever tried.'

'Unfortunately for me, I know how his mind works. It was just a case of turning it against him.'

'Just remember, any time you feel like a change from Torchwood, you can always come and work for UNIT'

'Hey, are you trying to poach my staff?' said Jack.

'There's no harm in trying.' answered the General.

'It's a kind offer,' said Molly, 'but I'm happy where I am.'

'If you ever change your mind, you know where I am. I will get the device that you want to borrow bought up for you, and then you can be on your way'. It was ten minutes before a UNIT soldier appeared carrying the device. He then escorted Jack and Molly back to the SUV, Jack phoning Ianto on the way. They then started the journey back to Cardiff.

X

Back at the Hub, time seemed to be at a standstill. Waiting for some kind of news from Jack and Molly had put everyone on edge, and they were getting nowhere with their research. Ianto had pulled all the files they had on Alex, but there was nothing useful in them. Gwen and Jamie had continued trying to work out where the van had gone after Molly and Jess had been taken, but they had no luck with this either. Whoever was behind this, were very organized and were clearly avoiding main routes where they were more likely to be picked up on camera. They spotted it a few times, but not enough to work out where it went. It didn't help that Jamie seemed to glance at the clock every few minutes. Then, finally Ianto's phone started ringing, breaking the silence that had descended on the Hub.

'Jack.' said Ianto as he answered it. 'Ok…Really,…'

Jamie started getting impatient, hearing only one side of a phone call was not helpful. He was worried for Jess, worried for Molly having to go and see Alex and also mad at himself for arguing with her before she left. He looked over to Ianto and saw him typing something on his keyboard

'Ok Jack, see you when you get back.' Ianto then carried on typing into his computer.

'So are you going to share, or was that a private conversation.' snapped Jamie moving over to Ianto's computer. As he looked at the screen, two pictures flashed up on the screen.

'This is Greg and Toby Wallace, the people behind today's events.'

'She did it.' said Jamie. 'She got the information.' Jamie allowed himself as small smile at the thought.

'Yeah, and from the sounds of it, it was interesting to watch. Jack sounded pretty impressed. Now we see what we can pull on these two before they get back.'

'I'll see if they have any kind of criminal record, or if they have ever at least been connected to a crime,' said Gwen.

'I'll help you.' said Jamie.

They went back to work, pulling up whatever they could on the Wallaces'. It was a few hours later when the alarm on the cog door sounded, announcing Jack and Molly's return.

As soon as Molly had walked through the door, she found herself being wrapped in Jamie's arms, as he had rushed over and pulled her close. 'I'm so sorry for what I said earlier, the last thing I wanted was for you to leave mad at me.'

Molly pulled back slightly so that she could look at Jamie. 'I wasn't mad, we both said some things we shouldn't, but given the situation, it's understandable.'

Jack walked over where Ianto and Gwen were, Molly and Jamie following a few steps behind. He put the device down on the desk and asked, 'So, have you found out anything useful?'

'Yes, once we had names it was easy.' said Gwen. 'Well done Molly.'

'Yeah, how did you get him to tell you what we needed to know?' asked Jamie.

Molly told them about what had happened with Alex, and how she had tricked him. By the time she had finished, the others were all laughing.

'God, I would have loved to have seen that.' laughed Ianto.

'I have to admit, it felt good.' smiled Molly. She then looked up at the screen at the images of the two men, and her smile faltered. 'That's the one that was in the van with me.' Molly pointed at the image of the man on the left.

'That's Greg Wallace, apparently the less violent of the two.' said Gwen.

'If he's the less violent one, then I don't want to think what the other ones capable of.' said Molly, subconsciously rubbing the side of his face.

'What do we know about them?' asked Jack.

'They are brothers, and have been linked to numerous crimes, but with no evidence and any witnesses mysteriously disappearing, nothings been pinned on them,' said Gwen. 'They are both lawyers, so they have the legal knowledge to get through any police investigations that comes their way, and they know all the loopholes. They use their office base to sell on alien gadgets to either criminal gangs, or people with too much money. According to some contacts I spoke too, they use any means necessary to get what they want. The Wallace's have plenty of heavies that work for them, so they don't tend to do the dirty work themselves, if they do then it's serious.'

'I'm getting deja vu.' said Molly as she sat down on a chair. 'It's like Benjamin Clarke all over again.'

'Who?' asked Jamie puzzled. The others nodded knowingly.

'Someone else who thought using stuff from the Rift for profit was a good idea.' said Molly.

'Sadly, Clarke and the Wallace brothers won't be the last ones who use alien technology for their own purpose. Some people will do anything to make money. I'd rather deal with aliens any day.' said Jack.

'We also discovered that the Wallace's have a lot of property, office buildings, warehouses, even farmland. There's no way of knowing where they could be holding Jess, it would take too long to try and check them out.' Ianto informed them.

'Right,' started Jack, 'We need to find out what we can about each building that they own, so that when they call with their demands and give us a place to meet, we will have some idea about the place.'

They divided up the properties and got to work researching them. About half an hour later, Molly's phone started to ring. She looked up in surprise, it was now the early hours of the morning and the only people that would ring her at this time were sat near her. She looked at the caller ID which flashed Unknown. Her surprise turned to trepidation, she pressed accept on the phone and spoke. 'Hello.' The others hearing the phone ring, gathered around her, Ianto started up a tracing programme.

'I'll get straight down to business,' said the male voice on the other end of the call. Molly set the phone to speaker so that the others could hear. 'I assume the other members of your team are listening in, so I should tell you it's pointless trying to trace this call, I've jammed the signal, one of the more useful pieces of technology I own.' The voice sounded so smug that Molly wished she could just reach down the phone to punch him.

'Where's my daughter?' Jamie couldn't help but call out.

'The girl is fine. Do you have what I want?'

'We have it, but I need proof Jess is alright.' said Molly, jumping in before Jamie could. She knew the situation needed to stay calm and she could see Jamie getting visibly more edgy.

'Fine, give me an email address and I'll send you the video link, don't bother trying to trace that either.'

'Ok,' answered Molly and she sent him a secure email address that was not connected to Torchwood, just in case he tried breaching their system. Molly received the link almost straight away, and opened it to see Jess sitting in the same small room she had been before.

'Jess' said Jamie walking over to the screen, trying to hold back tears that were forming.

'I hope that satisfied you.' said the man's voice as the image on the screen faded, 'Now, I want you Molly, to bring me the device in one hours time. I won't bother saying come alone because I know you won't, but you all better be on your best behaviour, because my team and I have no trouble shooting any of you, the girl included.'

'If you so much as touch her, I'll…' shouted Jamie towards the phone before Jack dragged him away.

'You see it's things like that I don't appreciate.' The man's voice now had a dangerous edge to it. 'I will send you the co ordinates and we will meet in an hour.' and with the he cut the call.

'He was right, I couldn't trace it.' said Ianto.

The phone beeped again, and Molly entered the co ordinates that she had been sent into her computer.

'We have our rendezvous, it's one of the farmhouses.'

'Great,' muttered Ianto. 'The farmhouses are the trickiest to plan any type of surprise around, too much open space.'

'Maybe so, but I think I have an idea,' said Jack. 'Get together your equipment and weapons, and meet at the SUV in fifteen minutes, I'll fill you in on the way.'