Steve meet Jim and Michael outside the building and they went in. Liz had told her dad she was staying at a new friends house that night for a sleep over to study as a cover and was hiding behind the steps in a mind warp when the others walked in, sneaking in behind them and swiftly finding a familiar storage room. Dropping the warp, she waited.
The others were meanwhile retracing the gun man's steps. They were following them through corridors bit by bit, Michael was spraying, Jim holding the light and Steve was the lookout.
Liz's wait was over. The two gunmen had entered the room she was in and she stumbled by accident. She swore as she righted herself and felt a bullet hit her shoulder, she mind warped them and ducked, the second onejust missed her jacket, inches from her side. Throwing an invisible fire ball at the gunmen from her hiding place, she knocked them out and ran to another room. 'She was determined to get herself safe AND take out the man, who would kill her either way if given the chance, particularly now she was with Michael, in case they thought he was the healer. For what?', she didn't know. She wished she DID.
By the time Liz had been shot, the guys had reached the locked room. With Steve down the hall, Michael opened it and asked Steve to warn them if anyone found them. He nodded. Looking at the evidence with his name on it, he knew they'd been right. He turned to Jim. Showing him the vial, he said ''They have been studying me.''.
It was then all three heard faints gun shots. Michael reached for Liz in his mind and couldn't reach her, he was blocked. She was here! Something caught his eye, going to the light desk, he turned it on. There was everything, including her uniform. ''That's Liz's from when she was shot and Max healed her.'' He gulped.
Grabbing a bin, they dumped all the evidence into it. It was then Steve called out ''Who are you?'' Liz was hiding nearby and saw them coming. She set the storage room she'd been in before on fire a bit more as a distraction. It worked. They went running to another room in a panic. She felt a pang at knowing she had killed the two guards but they would have killed her otherwise. It was kill or be killed.
She heard the guys leave and watched under a mind warp as she saw them run, evidence in hand. Dropping the warp, she blasted the evidence room just in case of any remaining evidence and once again under a mind warp, she ran out a different way to the guys, hiding behind the wall just in time. The other group were catching up. Ordering Jim and Steve to go, Michael froze hearing the group behind him. 'Duck behind the wall!'.
He did as he was told, furious with her. Sure enough, she'd dropped the warp and was sat next to him, wincing slightly. Ignoring his glare, she waited. Soon, the other group came out and ran for the car. Under her mind warp, so they wouldn't be seen, they saw one of the guard's bodies go flying through the window to land behind them. They knew that would have been her. Liz had stood up and saw them get in the car.
Her anger and powers got the better of her and she waited until they had climbed in before setting the car on fire, locking all the doors and windows. One of the men saw noticed a stray movement and fired at her and she ducked. Michael realised she hadn't been kidding!
Unknown to both of them, Kyle and Sean were both watching. In warning, Liz had sent out an invisible fire ball to the guard, wincing at his scream. Then she heard her name being called out ''Liz?'' by Sean. 'WHAT IS HE DOING HERE?!'. By chance, a guard wandered over to their spot. Michael had unlocked the car doors a few minutes ago. It had been too late. The old man was dead and the woman dead too. Under the same mind warp, he stood up and saw them both dead, Liz standing next to him with a grim look of satisfaction on her face, followed by sheer relief. 'She was done!'.
Looking over at the guard, Kyle was pulling Sean away. The guard noticed and fired at them. Sean ducked, got in the car and left while Kyle hid. The guard walked over to Liz and Michael. She mind warped the guard instead of them, dropping the one she'd had up and made him walk away. In the distance, Michael heard an ambulance approach and after Liz dropped the mind warp entirely, they watched the group leave for good.
Kyle then approached them, ''Liz, what is wrong with your shoulder?''. He'd asked concerned. Michael pulled her jacket off her shoulder and felt blood. ''You got shot! You promised me you'd be safe.'' ''I was safe! I mind warped. The second shot missed me. The only reason it didn't miss in your dream was because I had decided not to use a mind warp at the time. I just saved Jim's, Steve's AND your damn life with my distraction of a fire. I just hope it doesn't burn down.''.
She was mad at him.
He knew she was right, it was time to step up to the mark for her, she'd done it for him, for the group and got shot for it. He healed her shoulder with a quiet 'I'm sorry', removing the bullet, pocketing it and checked her side, feeling where her jacket had torn from the bullet. She had been close to dying.
In a quietly controlled voice, he asked ''How close?'' ''Inches.''. Kyle was pale, in a shaken voice he asked ''How many inches?''. Liz put her thumb and finger out a small distance. Michael was keeping himself together, just. Seeing Liz shot in a dream and then shot in real life was their first proof of what they had been seeing was the future. That and the evidence they'd found. He had nearly lost Liz tonight. Closing his eyes, he let out a steadying breath. It was a calm Liz, whose hand on his shoulder, who take him out of it. She smiled at both of them. ''Let's get out of here.''.