EPISODE
XXVI: DIVIDE AND DEVOUR
New York,
Friday, May 2, 2014 at 23:50
A
well-dressed boy returned home staggering, with earphones in his ears.
His eyes
were swollen and watery, his trembling hands were unable to hold the keys that
slid on the front steps
"Holy
shit!" he exclaimed bending down to pick them up.
Opened the
main door, he stepped into the elevator and he leaned against the wall waiting
to arrive at his destination.
The music
was pumping in his ears a violent melody.
At the
landing the keys slipped on the doormat
"But
nasty shit!" he cursed again.
A noise
coming from the stairs caught his attention. He took off his earphones and he
approached with caution. Everything seemed quiet and he turned back to the door
and he opened it. Before entering he heard that noise again and this time he
saw something spring up in front of him, he even hadn’t time to scream for help
that a cleaver lowered on him.
Washington,
Saturday, May 3, 2014 at 9:00
Sheldon and
Danny came out of their hotel room and they took a cab to get the court.
The streets
weren’t very busy and the two deceived the time reading notes for the trial.
When they
entered the court, they were escorted to a courtroom where the trial was about
to begin.
Danny
swallowed hard and clenched his fists watching Ben Maxwell sitting in front.
"Look
who it is! Detective Messer! I thought you would not come!"
Danny didn’t
answer and he sat down with Sheldon waiting for the trial to begin.
The clerk
of the court stepped forward "All rise! The Court enters! Judge Vander
presides over the judicial hearing!" he said.
Judge
Vander sat down in his place "Be seated!" he said, the room sat down
and he continued "The accused Ben Maxwell is here to be judged for the
crimes committed and for the possible conspiracy against the United States of
America!"
New York at
9:30
A woman
dressed in the uniform of a bar waitress went out of her apartment and saw the
blood on the landing. Launched a cry of terror she began to ask for help and
other neighbors look out onto the landing.
Soon after,
Flack and Jaime were on the landing to observe the trail of blood
"Did
you hear from someone?" Jaime asked
"Jo is
coming! Mac is handling the case of the mole in the FBI with Christine!"
Flack said
"Do
you think someone could have been killed?"
Flack
frowned "The whole thing is very suspicious but, if it is so, where's the
body?"
Adam came
up to them "Good morning guys! Am I the only one with the feeling that
here is passed a butcher?"
Flack
sighed "Shouldn’t you wait for Jo to analyze the scene?"
"Jo is
down here with the waitress who called 911! She will have it for a while
judging from what the young girl was shocked!" Adam took a swab and he
passed it on the stain of blood "I almost feel that we are dealing with
yet another serial murder!" he stood up standing "And it seems that
he likes to keep the bodies of the victims! There are traces of something that
could be a coroner's bag!"
Jaime took the
reflex camera, next to Adam's kit "I think you need this now!"
"Jo won’t
forgive me if I don’t bring her all the details!" Adam smiled taking the
camera in, and he started to shoot.
New York at
12:30
Christine
kissed Mac and came out of his office
"Look
at the computer and hold the phone at your fingertips!" she said walking
in the hallway "When I’ll be back I’ll have to tell you something!"
"Cannot
you say it to me now?" Mac smiled accompanying
"No! I
can only tell you it's a beautiful thing! At least, I believe it can please you
and make us happy!" Christine smiled.
Mac smiled
"It has been a certain time you did the analysis to control for what has
happened to us in February! Aren’t results there yet? When you told me to get
out of the bathroom with Kenny last night, I felt it was everything very suspicious...
I thought we were past the stage of mutually embarrassment..."
Christine
smiled and turned to kiss him again "See you later!" and she left him
on the steps leading to the elevators smiling.
Washington
D.C. at 13:30
Danny and
Sheldon went out of the court
"It
went well!" Danny exclaimed
"I
look forward to seeing Jo’s face when she’ll hear that Maxwell confessed the
will to destroy the United States!"
"The
face that his lawyer made, I think I will remember it for a lifetime!"
Danny commented climbing into the cab "Now that we are alone on the plane
we will be able communicate seamlessly with Jo!"
"You
can count on it!"
New York at
14:00
Mac
received a message from Christine “I’m going to call you in a minute” and further a phone call
"Go
ahead with it!" Mac replied
"Have
you looked at the letter with Angela?"
"Yes,
my love! I only know that it is something strange! Think that in the second
line I saw the meaning of the name and surname of Danny! It doesn’t make sense!
Luckily he and Sheldon are coming back! How was your meeting with J.J.?"
Christine
laughed "I'm still in one piece! Don’t fear! He asked me if you can meet
him in Brooklyn, over the East River! I begin to suspect him too... I thought
he was very enigmatic..."
"You
know him for years, did he ever make you think of being capable of acts of
terrorism?"
"He won’t
be capable of this because he loves his country more than his life! His
aggressive behavior is normal..." Christine commented "He has always
been violent!"
Mac looked
at Angela out of the office to show him a copy of the letter
"It
seems that Angela has discovered something! Later I will reach JJ, he may not
be the mole!"
"See
you later!"
Angela
walked through the door saying "Tobey Stone is the code name used by J.J.
and also by Maxwell during his brief escape! It’s not over! Another Tobey Stone
is an Arab terrorist who has pretended to be half-American, to blow up a
parking lot of a convenience store in Texas and he's still free!"
"Is there
a way to connect all three?" Mac asked
"One
email intercepted a few seconds ago by Christine! It proves that all three of
know each other!"
Mac smiled
and got up from the chair "That's what drives her to suspect him too!"
he picked up his jacket and he wore it over a white shirt "I am going by J.J.
Harris! If I'm lucky I'll be able to arrest him and bring him here!"
"Do
you want me to call Flack or Jaime?"
"No!
Tell them that I am in Brooklyn, if I won’t be back in a maximum of three
hours!"
"The
letter is proving to be interesting! I'm following your theory of names and
there's your last line! "
"How
it ends the letter?"
"To
cut short, you lose the Child of the handsome one who is no more strong like a
lion!"
Mac thought
about it "It would be the first time that a letter is not addressed to
me!"
"Yeah,
but who is the addressee?" Angela asked
"Check
it out while I am away!"
New York at
14:10
Jo’s
ultraviolet flashlight illuminated the landing
"Look
here, Adam!" she said pointing "In the congealed blood is trapped
something!"
Adam looked
in the direction indicated to him and he took the fiber with tweezers. He
stared at it for a moment then he put it in plastic wrap and he sealed it
"It will arrive soon on Lindsay's table!"
Flack
reached Jo saying "I have finished to query all the tenants! The only one
missing, excluding a couple who is in Canada for work, it’s Pierre Leroux!"
"I bet
that one ajar behind me is his apartment!"
Flack
laughed "Boom!"
"You
are missing Danny, aren’t you?" Jo quipped
"And aren’t
you miss Sheldon?" Flack retorted
"He
and Danny will be back this evening! I can resist!"
"Have
you decided how to call the baby girl?"
"Charlot
Stella Claire Sidney Hawkes!"
Flack
blinked "What a long and important name! Am I the first to know that you
gonna call her like that?"
"No,
it is a name that has been built! Adam, Mac and Isabella gave voluntarily their
contribution!" she looked at the victim's apartment and smiled "Let's
go check in there! Warn Adam!"
"Our
mom is struggling to move?"
"I
want to help Mac to solve his case and I cannot do that if I'm busy here!"
Washington,
D.C., at 16:00
"See
you next Washington DC!" Danny exulted sitting on the private jet with
Sheldon at his side
"Mac
is calling you!"
Danny
hastened to answer "Hey Mac! We're good to go! How is there at home?"
"Do
you remember J.J.?"
"The
funny guy who has sent you more than one letter to mess up your marriage?"
Danny asked
"There’s
him behind all! Tobey Stone is a code name which connects with a Middle Eastern
terrorist and Maxwell! I'm going to talk to him! I'm in traffic!"
"Not
to arrest him?"
"I'll
see if I can do that too!" Mac laughed "When you get back, come into
my office! We have been postponing this meeting for a long time!"
"I'll
be there Mac!" Danny smiled
"Have
a nice flight back and say hello to Sheldon for me!" Mac said hanging up.
New York,
at 16:10
Jo looked
at Lindsay show her the results
"In
the store we had the DNA of Pierre Leroux! The blood found on the landing belongs
to him and Adam showed me something interesting that you found inside the
apartment!"
"The
letter which invited us to achieve the Freedom Tower!" Jo exclaimed seeing
it appear on the table "Did you find anything?"
"Yes!
It is a clear message about where the body is and maybe it was the same murder
to leave it to us! I'm analyzing the traces of DNA found under one of the
letters attached to the sheet!" a noise call their attention
"We're
lucky! The CODIS also had this trace!" Jo exulted
"Let's
hunt for a dwarf! That's why we found her DNA: she is being treated for various
problems!"
"The
only indisposition for which she has no cure, it’s the thirst for killing!"
Jo said "Will you come with me?"
"I’ll
also call Flack and Jaime!"
New York, at
16:30
Mac was in front
of Domingo Sugar Factory when J.J. stepped in front of him
"Hello,
Mac!"
Mac broke
away from the car "J.J. ! I'm surprised that you wanted to meet me!"
"It's
me to be surprised that you came here alone! Where is Christine?" J.J.
asked moving a few steps in his direction
"With
my children!"
"Do
you consider yourself a responsible father and a husband?" J.J. grinned
evilly "You're just pathetic! You came here all alone as well!" J.J.
looked Mac to become nervous "How do
you think Christine will react when she’ll see the real analysis that you have
done?"
Mac jumped
"What are you talking about!"
"I
counterfeit the results of your analysis!" J.J. looked at the surprised
face of Mac “I also know why you're here: to arrest me! I know that you know
that I am that madman who sent the parcel bomb at FBI headquarters! I know that
you know that I am allied with a terrorist to destroy the country! I also know
that the main source of information is Christine!" J.J. pulled out a gun
"And because she loves you so much, I'm sure she will come here looking for
you! So I can kill you both!"
Mac drew
his gun "Not so fast!"
"Do
you want to incarcerate me to save this country? When are you going to stop
taking orders from above, from institutions, from the law? You're a jarhead,
Mac! You had to learn to see the world from another perspective! This country
is corrupt and evil! I want to put things right!" J.J. looked at the Mac
frowning face "Your colleagues won’t come to save you this time! I've
concocted the case in which Jo Danville-Hawkes is working on to split you up!
Within this night your whole team will cease to exist!"
Mac shook
his head "No! I will prevent that!"
"The
firsts who will make a bad end will be Dr. Hawkes and Detective Messer! Their
plane has just undergone a little detour! A plan easy to implement if I have
Islamic terrorists on my side!"
Mac didn’t
lower the gun "It’s me to have you on a string!" he began to blink
and J.J. smirked
"I was
wondering when chloral hydrate would begin to effect you! It’s since we are
here that you have been above that manhole! It was not easy to make it
odorless!"
Mac blinked
more vigorously "I won’t let you to implement your plan!" he fell on
his back leaving his grip on the gun
"It's
already started!" J.J. he said approaching him "If I were you I won’t
charge me up too much! You are also sick! Do you know for who I regret the most?
For your third child who will never see this world and for your twins who won’t
remember of ever had parents!"
Mac winced
closing his eyes "Christine won’t come alone! You will come a cropper
J.J.!"
"I’ll
force her to come alone! Erika and Dalia cannot help her and if they are not
dead they will be it soon! I'll enjoy seeing you and Christine suffer!"
New York,
16:45
"Where
is Lindsay? Why Flack told me on the phone to not move?" Jo said seeing
Jaime returning alone
"A
thing happened!" Jaime exclaimed while the street was filled with the
sounds of ambulances and police vehicles
"What?"
"Lindsay
was injured! The killer was in there! Flack shot, but the cleaver struck
Lindsay in the chest! Flack is with her now!"
Jo
shuddered "No! That’s not true!"
Paramedics
went up the stairs of Freedom Tower.
Lindsay was
on the ground with Flack at her side who was squeezing her hand and he was
trying to prevent the cleaver from sinking deeper into the flesh
"Breathe
Lindsay! Breathe calmly!" Lindsay tried to say something "Don’t talk!
You'll be fine! There’s me here with you!"
"Danny!"
Lindsay started to say "Something is about to happen to him, Don!"
"No!
Danny is good! He's coming home! For his good and for that of your children you
have to live! Do you understand me?" Flack asked "Fight Lindsay! Don’t
give up!" he incited her.
Paramedics
entered the office and they loaded Lindsay onto the stretcher.
As soon as
Jo saw the body of Lindsay climbing the ambulance she began to weep
"Jaime,
Jo!" Flack called them coming up with blood on his hands "I have done
everything possible to saved her! Now we can only pray..."
Skies on West
Coast, at 17.00
"Danny!
You're bleeding , Danny!" Sheldon said looking at the white shirt drenched
in blood in correspondence of the armpit
"Shit!"
Danny cursed "We are almost out of fuel!"
Sheldon
joined him in the cockpit " Will we get to New York?"
"I do
not think so, Sheldon! We also have the radio broken!" Danny stepped aside
the pilot's body "I've never piloted a jet seriously and I hope that the
flight simulator is enough to me!"
Sheldon sat
in the copilot's seat "I'll be by your side even though I have no idea
what it needs to do!"
Danny
smiled "Are you sure I got shot? I don’t feel anything!"
"I
should take a look to see how the thing is serious! Do you know where we can
touch down?"
"In
the open ocean, Sheldon! They have planted a bomb on both fuel tanks! "
Sheldon
looked out and saw a wing explode "Now what do we do?"
"Hold
on tight Sheldon," Danny began to blink, "Now I feel pain!"
"Danny"
Sheldon said, seeing the blue of the ocean "I want you to know that you're
the best friend I ever had and I wanted to say that it was great to work with
you!"
"Sheldon,
we will return to New York! You will see your daughter be born and I will see
my children grow up! We'll get to eighty years old to walk in the park
complaining about our wives and how the youth is immature and has no values!"
"And
you'll quit your job as head of the Crime Lab!"
Danny
looked at him laughing "What?"
"Mac
wants to promote you!" Sheldon smiled at him "That's if we go home
integers!"
"We
can stay in the air a little more!" Danny assured him.
New York,
at 17:10
Christine
pushed sending a message on his cell phone giving a kiss to each of the twins
"I'm
going to help Dad!" she whispered "If we won’t come back, you know
that we love you!"
She rushed
out of the house looking at the enigmatic face of his father
"Wait!"
he stopped her at the last "That look, I haven’t seen it on your face for
a long time! It is the look you have when you go to risky missions!"
Christine
went back inside, after closing the door
"J.J.
wants to kill Mac! He also falsified his analysis to make us believe that he
was right!"
Her father
hugged her "My girl, I know it won’t help to tell you don’t to go!"
"I'm
the only one who can save him! I won’t let him die!"
The man
looked at her "I know you won’t! What will become of the child you are
waiting for? Mac doesn’t even know you're pregnant!"
Christine
broke away from the embrace "I hope to be able to protect him!"
Angela
looked at Adam
"Christine
sent me a message!" she slammed a fist on the table "J.J. has
imprisoned her and Mac and we can’t help them!"
"I
have learned that Lindsay is in hospital. The serial killer has hurt her! I
confess I am also worried about Sheldon and Danny! Their plane disappeared into
thin air and they aren’t able to get in contact!" Adam frowned "What
's going on?"
Isabella
arrived out of breath "Is it true what you just said?"
"Yes!
It's all true!" Adam replied
"In what
trouble Mac got himself this time?" Peyton asked
"The
message that J.J. had done to write to Christine was for her and not for Mac!"
Angela explained "The message says that Christine will die, Danny and
Sheldon will die and that she has lost Mac!"
"Lost?"
Adam asked
"Mac
is ill and it is as if he were already dead for J.J.! Christine has found the
true analysis!"Angela explained "That bastard!"
Peyton
jumped "Mac has developed cancer? You must take action!" she said
shocked "What happens to you? They are our friends!"
"J.J. is
dangerous! He won’t hesitate to kill us! He has infiltrates everywhere!" Angela
said.
"But therefore
Mac and Christine will die! I say that Peyton is right!" Adam exclaimed.
Off the
coasts of the state of New York, at 17:45
Troubled spirits on my chest
Where they laid to rest.
The birds all left, my tall friend,
As your body hit the sand.
Danny shook
trying to hold up Sheldon on a metal plate
"Hang
in there! Sheldon please hold on!"
Sheldon
opened his slightly eyes "Danny..."
"I'm
here Sheldon!" he tried to keep his eyes open but after seeing a fishing
vessel he let go
"Danny..."
Sheldon called him.
Million stars up in the sky
Formed a tiger's eye
That looked down on my face,
Out of time and out of place.
Someone
from the fishing vessel caught sight of them "There are two men in the
sea!"
"Quick,
Let's get them on board!"
Danny
sighed and a smile mixed with pain appeared on his face. Sheldon did exactly
like him trying to open his eyes.
Awaken by the sound
Of a screaming owl.
Chasing leaves in the wind,
Going where we've never been.
The ship's
captain looked at them and noticed the badge Danny and the wound under his
shirt
"Let’s
return to harbor immediately!"
Danny began
to wade in Sheldon’s direction and he extended an arm toward him noticing the
wound to the head and the blood that flowed "Sheldon! My friend!"
Said goodbye to you, my friend,
As the fire spread.
All that's left are your bones
That will soon sink like stones.
New York, at
18:30
Christine
walked into the abandoned factory
"J.J.?"
she called without any replies.
Someone
attacked her from behind and she did not have time to rebel that a handkerchief
was pressed on her face making her sink into a state of unconsciousness.
Christine,
when she recovered her senses, turned up her nose perceiving blood to come out.
She opened her eyes and found herself tied with chains to a chair with arms,
she looked up and she saw in front of her someone with a hood, tied like her
"Mac?"
she called him worried.
The man
began to fidget and he tried to figure out where the voice was coming
"Don’t
worry Mac! J.J. isn’t here right now! I am in front of you! I've been a stupid!
I could have realized many times who he really was, but..."
"You could
do that Chris, but you didn’t!" J.J. said moving forward "I have
chosen a big place to escape unmolested, as soon as your Mac’s colleagues will come!
There is no danger that they hear you scream and I assure you that this time
you won’t be so lucky as happened with the Pimpernel!"
J.J.
removed the hood to Mac who looked at Christine in the eyes without being able
to speak because of the gag in his mouth
"Mac
I'm so sorry!" Christine told him shaking her head
"You'll
be more sorry, soon!" J.J. said "I know for sure you sent something
to the police and to the high circles of the FBI! Tell me the contents of
messages because I delete all traces and I promise you that Mac will live!"
Christine
looked at Mac who shook his head slightly
"Why
should I do that? I have no guarantees that he will live!" she said
angrily.
J.J. came
to Mac "I guarantee one thing: that he will suffer a lot if you don’t
speak!" he threw his head back with his hand and he grinned "I'll
count to ten, my darling! I'm going to enjoy myself a lot with your Mac! The
same cannot be said for him!"
Christine
saw J.J. take a bar of metal “J.J. please! Don’t do it!"
"One!"
he exclaimed hitting Mac on the nose.
Mac leaned
forward with his head, unable to lean forward with the whole body due to
chains, he clenched his teeth and when he looked up at Christine, she saw the
blood running down his from a cut left the middle of the nose and from his nostrils
"I beg
you, J.J.! stop it!" Christine implored him
"Two!"
Mac was hit on the right shoulder.
Christine
began to struggle
"Three!"
Mac whimpered when the metal bar struck him on the neck "Don’t look away,
Chris!" J.J. said hitting Mac again in the same spot.
Christine
heard Mac’s shout stifled by the gag and she looked at his face, almost
entirely bloodstained
"Four!"
J.J. smote Mac’s knee at the kneecap "Five!" the iron rod produced a
dull thud against Mac’s abdomen "Six!" against the chest
"Seven!" against an arm "Eight!" simultaneously on arm and
leg
"Stop
immediately J.J.!" Christine screamed agonizing
"You've
been silent for quite a while!" he said removing the gag to Mac "What
do you have to say?" J.J. asked him
"You're
gonna pay!" Mac said spitting up blood "Don’t tell him anything
Christine!"
"Nine!"
Mac was
struck between his legs and his loud scream of pain filled the surrounding
space
"No,
Mac!" Christine screamed.
J.J. took
the gun and pointed it to Mac’s temple straightening his head because his
tearful eyes would been able to meet those of Christine "We got to ten,
Chris!" he said lowering the cock "Do you really want me to?"
"Stop!"
Christine screamed "I'll tell you everything! I promise!"
"Along
these lines I like you!" J.J. said removing the gun barrel from the head
Mac and walking away "While I am going to take the PC you could talk a
bit. You have so many things to tell each other!"
Mac looked
at Christine "Why did you do that?"
"I
cannot let you die!" Christine sobbed "I cannot bear it!"
Mac mourned
more than her "By doing so I'll see you die!"
"What
do you mean?"
"He
shot the bomb that you've built up in your brain!" Mac said trying to calm
down "Is it true that you're pregnant?"
"Yes!
Who told you that?"
"Try
to guess it!" Mac said feeling the blood trickling from his nose "Was
it what you would want to tell me tonight at home?"
"Yes!"
Christine continued to look into his eyes "Instead, you have developed
cancer!"
"J.J.
let me know that too! I'm worried for Sheldon and Danny! Maybe J.J. has already
murdered them!"
Christine
shivered realizing completely J.J.’s plan "He wants to kill us all!"
New York,
at 19:35
Jo clutched
the hand of Jaime when she saw the surgeon come out
"Detective
Messer has been operated successfully, but the next several hours will decide
whether she will live or not!"
Jo nodded
"Thank you, Doctor!"
"In
your state you should rest, Detective! Go home! For any update, you will be
contacted!" the surgeon said leaving.
Jaime
stroked Jo "They haven’t yet found Mac and Christine! They know only that
they are somewhere near the East River in Brooklyn!"
"Why aren’t
Sheldon and Danny calling?" Jo asked
Jaime
sighed through her tears "Their plane disappeared and no one knows
anything about them by at least three hours!"
Jo sobbed
louder "It cannot be happened anything to them too, right?"
New
Rochelle, at 20:00
"Doctor,
we were able to get in touch with Detective Hawkes!" a nurse said
"Well!
I'm ready to talk!" he said raising the receiver "Detective, it's Dr.
Andrew Warren!"
"Good
evening!"
"Two
of your men were rescued and brought here during the evening! The names are Danny
Messer and Sheldon Hawkes!"
Jo jumped
"And ... how are they?"
"Detective
Messer is critical and the next several hours will be decisive! While Dr.
Sheldon Hawkes is still in the operating room!"
Jo took a
deep breath "Tell me the truth about Dr. Hawkes!"
"Actually,
I cannot tell you more!"
"I'm his
wife!"
New York,
at 20:01
Mac had
once again bandage on mouth and he looked at Christine as she typed on the
computer
"Are they
all the passwords, Chris?" J.J. churches
"Yes!"
J.J.
pointed a gun at Mac “Truly all, all of them?"
Christine
resumed typing "You know that you risk that the bomb will deactivate if
you leave me near the computer?"
"Did
you tell her about the bomb? What a good husband!" J.J. smiled "Do you
think I'm a fool? I knew you were plug away at something of big! I stole the
projects and I have built your own perfected bomb!"
"What?"
"Surprise!
I also added a remote control to make sure that you would give me everything I
needed! You did it and now I can let you die in front of Mac!" J.J. said
approaching her and pressing a button on a remote control.
Christine
took the computer and threw it in J.J’s face and she managed to steal his gun
"Don’t
move!" she intimate
"Bitch!
I'll find a way to hide myself! Your children will never be safe!" J.J.
stood up and began to run towards the exit.
Christine
broke free of the chains on her feet with the help of the gun and then she went
on to release Mac with keys that she found on another table in the room
"I'll
get him!" Mac told her grabbing the gun she handed him "Find something
that can give you a shock!"
Mac ran
into the hallway where J.J. had disappeared
"J.J.,
I am hard on your heels! I'll never let you get away! Should this be the last
thing I do!" Mac shouted into the darkness
"I’m not
running away!" J.J. said grabbing him around the neck from behind and
Mac’s gun fell to the ground "How does it feel to know that your wife is
going to die?"
Mac slid
him forward and made him land him back in front of him
"You're
no different from criminals whom you murdered until today, J.J.! You made the
mistake to provoke me and threaten the lives of people I care!" Mac kicked
him "You will pay for what you've done!"
J.J. picked
up a gun who had to his ankle and pointed it at his face "I took you
in!"
Mac was
able to avoid the gun shot and hide himself behind a wall
"Are
we playing hide and seek now?!" J.J. shouted at darkness "What
happened to your courage?!"
Mac
appeared out of thin air by using a metal sheet as a shield "It's over
JJ!"
"Do you
think that?" he smiled "There will be others like me! Corruption won’t
last long!"
Mac threw
himself on J.J. and he managed to disarm him "As I told you, it's
over!"
"For
you it's over!" J.J. smiled showing the ring of a grenade.
Mac looked
at the object with horror before to stand up and be thrown to the ground by the
explosion who brought down one of the walls.
Shortly
after, Mac coughed trying to figure out where his rival was, he instinctively
reached out to grab the gun next to him and he pointed it at J.J. who had been
crushed by the wall. Mac looked down at his left leg trapped under the fallen
wall, he contracted his face into an expression of pain trying to turn around
to get rid
"What
harm!" he moaned.
With his
right leg he tried for pry loose and he succeeded in lifting a piece of the
wall to pull out the trapped leg.
When the
left leg was out of the rubble, Mac noticed that his ankle was in a bad way. He
found the strength to stand up and leaning against the wall he came back to
Christine.
Christine
was on the ground and she was holding her head with hands
"Christine!"
Mac called emphatically "I'm here!"
"Mac
get those electrical wires from the wall and hand them to me!" she had
shortness of breath and her eyes were blankly into space as she tried to remain
seated with her back to the wall
"You
have nosebleeds, Christine!" he said giving her two wires seeing that she
had something in her hand
"As
soon as I put the pencil in my mouth turn on the electric current!"
Christine was going to put a pencil in her mouth and she looked at Mac tighten
his eyes "Wait!" she stopped him by removing the pencil from her
mouth "I love you!" she said before putting the pencil between her
teeth and she closed her eyes.
Mac turned
on the current and soon as Christine fell to the ground, he turned it off. The
pencil was broken in half and the two sides had dropped beside her.
The Mac
ankle gave way and he had to struggle to reach Christine, he cut off her
sweater with his teeth after he had positioned her perfectly supine and he
began to practice the first thirty chest compressions and the first two rescue
breaths
"Please
Christine, wake up!"
Behind him
noises were heard and he tried to pay attention, knowing that he would never
have been able stop
"NYPD!"
"Flack!"
Mac shouted to attract his attention.
As soon as
Flack saw the blood on the ground coming from Mac ankle and Christine
unconscious, he leaned to the ground
"Call
911!" he shouted to colleagues and while Mac practiced two rescue breaths he
positioned himself with his hands on Christine's chest
"How
many cycles you get here?"
"With
this I complete the first one!" Mac said approaching his face to that of
Christine "Wake up! Please, wake up!"
"Twenty-seven,
twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty!" Flack counted out aloud.
Mac
practiced the two rescue breaths and he stopped to listen to the breath
Christine "Nothing!"
"Don’t
worry Mac! Keep Calm! We won’t let her go!"
Mac held
her head back "Come back to me! Please Christine!"
"Chief..."
one of the officers said approaching
"Where's
the ambulance?!" Flack yelled
"They're
coming! There was someone there, exactly where the explosion occurred, but he
escaped! It was just to let you know! I'm going to call someone to replace the
Inspector!" he said going away
"Christine!
I need you, not only to stop J.J.! Wake up!" Mac begged her.
New York,
at 22:35
Jo looked
out the window of her living room waiting for the phone to ring.
Ellie and
Tyler were there with her and they had prepared a hot tea
"Mom,
it doesn’t change anything if you stay there at the window! You need to rest!"
Tyler invited her
"I'm
so worried..." she said sitting down on the couch "How I wish to be
able to resume drinking coffee!"
At that
moment the phone rang
I believe in nothing
Not the end and not the start
I believe in nothing
Not the earth and not the stars
I believe in nothing
Not the day and not the dark
I believe in nothing
But the beating of our hearts
I believe in nothing
One hundred suns until we part
"Detective
Hawkes!" Jo replied. She put her hand over her mouth and began to cry
"Tell me that's not true, Flack!"
"Unfortunately,
yes! Mac is with her now! He doesn’t want to leave her! I fear that if the
ambulance won’t arrive soon even for him..."
"How
much blood has Mac lost?" Jo asked
"Too
much!" Flack replied with sadness "J.J. has achieved his goal: he has
destroyed us and he escaped! I'll call you later when we get to the hospital I
have to help Mac!"
Jo pulled
away the phone from her ear and she cuddle up on the couch crying
"Mom?
Mom, what happened to Mac?" Ellie asked
"Mom
please! Answer it!” Tyler urged her.
I believe in nothing
Not in Satan, not in God
I believe in nothing
Not in peace and not in war
I believe in nothing
But the truth of who we are
Mac, with
eyes full of tears, looked again at Christine’s face
"Don’t
leave me! Wake up! I implore you, Christine!" he stood on his knees with
difficulty.
The
policeman who was replacing him stepped aside, tired
"You
have to live! We have two children who are waiting for us!" Mac began to
squeeze back onto her chest as hard as he could do "If not for me, do it
for them! Breathe!"
