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The doors to the bank slowly opened.
"Everybody in position!" Brass yelled.
Eleven hostages came out, building a barrier around the two hostage takers. They had umbrellas in their hands, covering them up. They made it impossible for the police officers to fire a clear shot.
"What the hell...?" Brass said confused. He didn't know that they were coming out now, neither did he know that they'd come out like this. He was surprised.
Two officers from the SWAT team were standing in front of the car.
"Jim, tell them to get away from the car and you'll get all the hostages!"
"Where's the rest of them?" Brass asked.
"Inside. Just do it and we can end this, finally."
Brass told his men to get away from the car. They were only a few feet away from them, though, with their weapons drawn in their direction.
Because of the hostages standing in the way and the car's tinted windows, the police didn't see what they were doing in the car. It took a while before they were ready to get inside, though.
"We're gonna drive away now, Jim. You get your hostages, and we'll be able to get out of here undisturbed, right?"
"Let me take a look at all of the hostages first."
"No."
"We're all alright," one of the hostages in the front said. "Just let them go and this will be over."
"Not for everybody, though. We'll take three hostages with us, as life insurance. We'll drop them off as soon as our friends gets out of prison."
"What? You said you'd free all of them now."
"How stupid do you think I am? I promise, they won't get hurt, but it would be better for them if you wouldn't follow us, okay? I'll contact you in a few hours. Our friend's better out of jail by then!" They got into the car. As soon as they drove off, the SWAT team entered the bank, cautious, not knowing what to expect in there, while two cars followed the car the hostage takers just drove off with.
Nick, Sara and Catherine were standing behind the police tape nervously. They didn't hear Brass' conversation with the hostage takers. As they saw several hostages leave the bank, they got more nervous. "Where is he?" Catherine asked anxious. When the last hostage left, and the masked men were carried out, tied up again, as well as Helen, a member from the SWAT team talked to Brass. He walked up to the CSIs with a face impression that let them expect the worst.
"No, Jim... Please tell me he's not..." Catherine said desperate.
"He's not in there," Brass replied.
"...What do you mean?"
"They took three hostages with them. I already expected Greg to be one of them..."
They stood there stunned. "Well... we have to get after them!" Nick said.
"We have two cars following them and a tracking device in the car, in case they lose them. We have to be very careful, we don't know what they're up to."
"So what are we gonna do now? Just sit around and wait?"
Brass nodded. "There's nothing else we can do right now..."
"I thought they wanted this guy out of jail! What happened, why did they come out?" Nick asked confused.
"They still want him released... We're only getting Greg and the hostages back if we do it."